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LOT 1484
Stone Age Arrowhead and Tool Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 1 3/8 in. (53.6 grams total including stand, 25-34 mm).
Including barbed-and-tanged arrowheads, chisel and oblate blade; all mounted on perspex display frames. [4, No Reserve]
Provenance
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.
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