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LOT 1471
Stone Age Flint and Other Tool Collection
MAINLY NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4TH MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
1 1/4 - 4 1/2 in. (22 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.) (3.35 kg total including case, 3.5-11.5 cm (case:57 x 36.5 x 6 cm)).
Including scrapers, burins, arrowheads and other items; in a glazed wooden display case with removable lid, green baize lining. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePreviously acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
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Stone Age 'Colchester' Part Polished Axe Head
Neolithic Period, circa 2500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Long and slender blade, lentoid in section with partly polished finish; old collector's label 'Colchester 1974'. 306 grams, 18.8 cm
Found Colchester, Essex, UK, in 1974. Acquired on the British art market. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. -
Massive Stone Age Speckled Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 7th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
With rounded cutting edge and almost-circular shank, thin pointed butt. 3.17 grams, 39 cm
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 Danish Knapped Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Plano-convex in section with old collector's labels: to verso '392/MORS' and 'DENEMARKEN' to recto. 245 grams, 10.7 cm
Found Denmark. 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.
