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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]
ProvenanceFrom 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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Stone Age 'Danish' Hammer-Axehead
Neolithic Period, 5000-4000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Rectangular in section with rounded butt and striking face. 369 grams, 11 cm
From the collection of a London, UK, professional. Acquired on the UK art market. From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector. -
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Knapped burin with cortex to rounded butt; with an old inked inscription: '8.HC.1021.A /Twydall'. 177 grams, 82 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age 'Colchester' Part Polished Axe Head
Neolithic Period, circa 2500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Long and slender blade, lentoid in section with partly polished finish; old collector's label 'Colchester 1974'. 306 grams, 18.8 cm
Found Colchester, Essex, UK, in 1974. Acquired on the British art market. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
