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LOT 2996
Stone Age Flint Collection
NEOLITHIC-BRONZE AGE PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000-4,000 B.P.
1 3/4 - 6 1/4 in. (6 kg total, 4.5-16 cm).
Including hammer-stones, side-scrapers, end-scrapers, burins, handaxes, arrowheads and unworked flints, many with inked findspot; and old collector's notes. [37, No Reserve]
ProvenancePreviously in the collection of archaeologist Frederick William Robbins.
Accompanied by eight original handwritten labels.
Accompanied by a printed short article on Robbins with a bibliography.
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LOT 2996
Stone Age Flint Collection
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Stone Age Mixed Type Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 119 grams total, 22-41 mm
Ex UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Huge Gran Pressigny French Stone Age Livre de Beurre Knapped Core
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
A substantial flint core 'Livre de Beurre' with vertical traces of blows on the work side, slightly scooped ends; with cortex to one face. 4.62 kg, 32.5 cm
From Gran Pressigny, France. Ex old German collection of Dr J. Fehkhaber, formed in the 1970s. -
Norfolk Stone Age Polished Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Leaf-shaped in plan, with a rounded butt and tip. 55 grams, 10.9 cm
Found Norfolk, UK. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection.