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LOT 1679
Stone Age Classic French Flint Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 250,000-60,000 B.P.
4 5/8 in. (266 grams, 11.7 cm).
Piriform in plan with carefully worked edges, some cortex to butt; inked findspot and taxonomic information to underside 'St Meme (FA) / Charente / B. Uniface / Amygdaloide / Achuléen'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the well regarded long-closed quarry site of St Meme, Charente, France.
From an old large French collection.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Rectangular-section bar with rounded sides due to edge-polishing; inked legend 'A24', 'M2'. 300 grams, 15 cm
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Stone Age French Flint Scraper and Knife Blade Collection
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Including long-blade scrapers, leaf-shaped and discoid blades; with collector's card 'French Neolithic'. 98 grams total, 25-96 mm
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Stone Age Bifacial Flint Hand Axe
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Ovate in profile with carefully worked edge; old collector's label '14 145'. 131 grams, 91 mm
Found possibly Scarborough area, North Yorkshire, UK. Acquired Oxford, UK, November 2002. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N145; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
