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LOT 1533
Stone Age Cave Drawing of a Quadruped
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C. OR LATER
6 7/8 in. (1.86 kg, 17.5 cm).
Dressed stone panel with incised image of a horned animal in profile. [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 Boat-Shaped Pierced Axehead and 'Orkney' Macehead
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Substantial axehead with hammer face to rear; the macehead with old inked inscription: '84.277 / ORKNEY'. 3.65 kg total, 12.3-19.5 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. -
Stone Age Handaxe from the Famed Acheulean Site of St Acheul
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 450,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £624
Handaxe with cortex to the broad rounded butt; old collector's label 'St. Acheul'. 176 grams, 98 mm
Found St Acheul, 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.
St Acheul is the type-site from which the Acheulian Period is named. -
Stone Age 'Buigny' Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Rectangular in plan and biconvex in section with old inked legend 'BUIGNY'. 149 grams, 97 cm
Found Buigny, Northern France. Ex old French collection. Acquired prior to 2000. From a private Norfolk, UK, collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
