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LOT 1536
Stone Age Danish Knapped Flint Dagger
LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2000-1700 B.C.
3 1/2 in. (26.5 grams, 90 mm).
With leaf-shaped two-edged blade and stub hilt. [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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.206.
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