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LOT 1509
Stone Age Flint Arrowhead Group
NEOLITHIC-EARLY BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 6000-4500 B.P.
1 in. (7.23 grams total, 25.4-28.5 mm).
Very fine examples with intricate pressure flaking; in old collector's card tray with padding, inked find spot 'Blesignac' to one edge. [3]
Provenance
Found Blesignac, Near Bordeaux, France, in 1916.
Acquired on the European art market.
From an old collection which was sold after the finder passed away.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
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