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LOT 1693
Stone Age Flaked Chalcedony Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.P.
4 1/8 in. (130 grams, 10.6 cm).
Finely worked blade with an inked collector's note on one side.
ProvenanceFound Oigny-En-Valois, France.
From an old large French collection.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.4, p.57, for type.
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