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LOT 1438
Stone Age 'Danish' Knapped Flint Thick-Butted Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 3000-2500 B.C.
4 - 4 7/8 in. (573 grams total, 10.3-12.5 cm).
Two trapezoidal in plan and one irregular with square-section butt. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the British art market.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
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LOT 1438
Stone Age 'Danish' Knapped Flint Thick-Butted Axehead Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Stone Age 'Spiennes' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Rectangular in plan with thin butt, made from a blade core. 343 grams, 10.5 cm
Found Spiennes, Belgium. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. -
Stone Age Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Including one with angled cutting edge, one with gouged blade, and other types. 461 grams total, 69-98 mm
Found North Africa. Ex Ian Richardson collection, Sunderland, UK. From 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. -
Stone Age Axehead Collection
Palaeolithic-Neolithic Period, circa 200,000-4000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising: two teardrop-shaped handaxes, one with absent tip; a pecked fusiform axehead with conical butt. 990 grams total, 12.3-14.5 cm
Previously acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
