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LOT 1527
Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools and Implements
PALAEOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000-6,000 B.P.
7/8 - 3 1/8 in. (267 grams total, 23-81 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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Stone Age Knife Blade and Other Tool Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 181 grams total, 29-71 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Scraper and Other Tool Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 5500-4500 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Mainly ovate in plan, one with inked legend 'Countess A[...]dow, BDF Feb '91'. 143 grams total, 40-62 mm
Found Bagthorpe, Norfolk, UK, in the 1920s and earlier(?). Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Vinca Terracotta Standing Idol
5th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
With pinched facial features, stub arms and conjoined legs; vertical linear detailing for the robe, vertical lines to the back for hair. 79 grams, 11 cm
Fine condition.
From the Wedemeyer collection; acquired in the 1970s. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
