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LOT 1591
Stone Age Boat-Shaped Pierced Axehead and 'Orkney' Macehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 7/8 - 7 3/4 in. (3.65 kg total, 12.3-19.5 cm).
Substantial axehead with hammer face to rear; the macehead with old inked inscription: '84.277 / ORKNEY'. [2, 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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LOT 1591
Stone Age Boat-Shaped Pierced Axehead and 'Orkney' Macehead
Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
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Stone Age 'River Yare' Flint Cleaver-Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 500,000-240,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Substantial cleaver with one worked edge; old collector's label 'From the River = Sandown, IOW / River Yare / Alveston - to Sandown'. 1.11 kg, 15.2 cm
Found by the River Yare, between Alvestone and Sandown, Isle of Wight, UK. Ex Victor Brox collection, UK, formed during the 1980s-1990s. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. -
Stone Age 'Salisbury' Flint Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 480,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Irregular worked flint with some cortex remaining, old inked legend 'SALISBURY' to the edge. 115 grams, 78 mm
Found fieldwalking near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, by Mr P.M. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe Group
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 480,000-250,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising three flakes: a small triangular arrowhead, a lanceolate blade and a piriform blade; small worked piriform handaxe with indistinct inked inscription to the base 'Langdon's C[...]' (perhaps Langdon's Cliff, Dover, Kent). 210 grams total, 4.8-11 cm
From the collection of François Bigot (1950-2009). with Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 28th September 2021.
