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LOT 1555
Stone Age Acheulean 'Homo Erectus' Red Quartzite Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1,000,000-500,000 B.P.
6 3/4 in. (1 kg, 17 cm).
Biconvex in section with large rounded butt and narrow tip (absent). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Northern Sahara, North Africa.
From the British art market in the 1970s-1980s.
Acquired via inheritance, 1988.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.1, for type.
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LOT 1555
Stone Age Acheulean 'Homo Erectus' Red Quartzite Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
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South East Asian Ban Chiang Polished and Knapped Tool Group
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising a polished lentoid-section blade, a pecked teardrop blade, a knapped lentoid-section blade and a long single-edged scraper; two with labels: 'Ban Chiang Neolithic / Stone Age Thailand'. 314 grams total, 57-129 mm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Tool and Artefact Group
6th-4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Including flint scrapers and a small cleaver. 162 grams total, 23-66 mm
Found on various UK sites since 1974. Property of an Essex collector. -
Stone Age Scrapers from Various locations of France Including Lamondie and Larlux
Upper Palaeolithic Period, circa 28,000-22,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
Marked 'Poligny/2915', 'Lamonie.24 / Montgetell 3.7.68', 'La Vergne Larlux /24/JRV', 'Vengues/57'. 180 grams total, 67-88 mm
Found France. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
