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LOT 1481
Stone Age Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 2 1/4 in. (47 grams total including stand, 26-56 mm).
Mixed group including barbed-and-tanged and slender triangular types, mounted on perspex display frames. [5, 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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