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LOT 1498
Stone Age Blade Tools from Southern France including La Gravette
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 40,000-20,000 B.P.
2 1/2 - 4 5/8 in. (48 grams total, 6.5-11.8 cm).
Marked with old collector's inked titles 'La Lionne, quartier de Loiselay. Sorgues (Vaucluse)', La Gravette 10.67', 'Vircoulon'; and one indistinct. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Southern 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.
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LOT 1498
Stone Age Blade Tools from Southern France including La Gravette
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
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Group of Stone Age Flint Tools, Scrapers, Blades and Cores
Mesolithic Period, circa 9000-3450 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
A mixed group of twenty-one worked blades and other flint tools. 390 grams total, 22-55 mm
Found Portland Bill, Dorset, UK, 1970s. Ex Hampshire, UK, collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Mesolithic men made use of a vast range of materials and mass-production techniques to make the special tools they needed. One of the oldest examples of a 'factory' intended for large-scale production was discovered by Grahame Clark, in the underground of a reclaimed field at Star Carr, Yorkshire. -
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Stone Age Flint Scrapers with Reproduction Axes and Spearheads
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Mixed group including some ancient scrapers and modern copies of axes and spearheads. 636 grams total, 2.5-26 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1970s onwards. -
Large Stone Age Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
With pointed butt and broad curved cutting edge; even chocolate-brown patination, butt chipped. 602 grams, 20 cm
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.
