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LOT 1238
Stone Age Flint Knife Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 - 4 in. (300 grams total, 5-10.2 cm).
Comprising twenty eight specimens with sharp cutting edges. [28, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
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Stone Age Upnor Flint Borer Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Formed on a core, trimmed to a point on one edge; with inked collection number: 'Upnor 9'. 258 grams, 80 mm
Found Upnor, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. -
Stone Age French Grey Flint Uniface Handaxe
Mousterian Period, circa 300,000-100,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Inscribed in black ink to the reverse: 'CHEVRIERE / OISE'. 112 grams, 10.8 cm
Found Chevriere Oise, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Stone Age British Knapped Flint Axehead
Mesolithic Period, 15th-10th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Being a slender knapped flint axe of generally triangular cross-section with convex cutting edge tapering slightly to a rounded butt; in a white patinated grey-brown flint as typically seen with chalk downland finds in southern England. 129 grams, 13.5 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
