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LOT 1501
Stone Age Flint Adze
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 12,000 B.P.
5 3/8 in. (175 grams, 13.5 cm).
Leaf-shaped in plan and lentoid in section; with inked find spot legend 'Olendon / Calv-5/58- / Col.MA'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Olendon, Calvados, France.
From the collection of the amateur archaeologist M. Allais, formed in the mid 1900s.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
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