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LOT 0337
Stone Age Fatjanovo Culture Battle Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 in. (850 grams, 18 cm).
A finely polished boat-shaped axe in dark grey stone, with expanded asymmetric convex cutting edge tapering to a 'hammer' butt, drilled to receive handle. [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.
See Glob, P. V., Danske Oldsager II, Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, no.333, for general form and no.486, for an example with collared butt; also for a group of two similar but larger examples see Christie's New York, 4 June 2015, no.72 (US$10,000-15,000).
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