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Stone Age Corded Ware Boat-Shaped Axehead Stone Age Corded Ware Boat-Shaped Axehead Stone Age Corded Ware Boat-Shaped Axehead Stone Age Corded Ware Boat-Shaped Axehead Stone Age Corded Ware Boat-Shaped Axehead Stone Age Corded Ware Boat-Shaped Axehead
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LOT 0280

Stone Age Corded Ware Boat-Shaped Axehead

LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND MILLENNIUM B.P.

7 3/4 in. (676 grams, 19.5 cm).

Finely polished in dark grey stone with expanded convex cutting edge tapering to a 'hammer' butt, socket with reserved mouth to receive handle.

Provenance

From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12509-231211.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

See Glob, P. V., Danske Oldsager II, Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, no.333, for type, no.486, for an example with collared butt.

CONDITION
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LOT 0280

Stone Age Corded Ware Boat-Shaped Axehead

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,380

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