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LOT 1512
Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools and Implements
PALAEOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000-6,000 B.P.
1 - 2 3/4 in. (245 grams total, 24-70 mm).
Including scrapers and other tools, and debutage. [14, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
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Large Stone Age 'Homo Erectus Ficron Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 500,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Triangular in profile with broad butt; old inked legend '25854'; mounted on a custom-made stand. 793 grams, 17.2 cm (850 grams, 22 cm including stand)
Found North West Africa. Formally part of a French collection built up in the mid 1900s and sold via a European auction house. Acquired on the UK art market from Mr P M based in Kent. -
Stone Age Knapped Aterian Knife
Middle Palaeolithic Period, 145,000-40,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
With square butt and rounded edge, mottled coloration. 33.7 grams, 69 mm
Found Sahara desert of North Africa. Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
British Stone Age Crescent Flint Scraper from Farnham
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
D-shaped with broad cutting edge, cortex to the rear. 49 grams, 54 mm
Found Farnham, Kent, in 1901. From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent. After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction.
