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LOT 1681
Stone Age Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
4 3/8 in. (192 grams, 11 cm).
Plano-convex in section with some cortex to the irregular butt; inked legend 'Sept.93 / Longeuil / Ste. Marie / 60'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceJean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), amateur prehistorian, former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West, Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France.
Collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise and Val-d'Oise.
Accompanied by a copy of a French cultural passport.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Stone Age Long French Gravettian Thick-Crested Blade
Upper Palaeolithic Period, circa 35,000-25,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Triangular in section with steep re-touch along the full length of the blade; old findspot label 'Romigny / Marne'. 71 grams, 11.8 cm
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Stone Age Bifacial Flint Hand Axe
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Ovate in profile with carefully worked edge; old collector's label '14 145'. 131 grams, 91 mm
Found possibly Scarborough area, North Yorkshire, UK. Acquired Oxford, UK, November 2002. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N145; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
