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LOT 1492
Stone Age Flint Knife Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/2 - 2 3/4 in. (237 grams total, 39-70 mm).
Comprising thirty knives and some other tools. [30, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Knife
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Triangular-section blade; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS.1252.A / Twydall'. 46 grams, 91 mm
Found Twydall, 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. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age Danish Thick-Butted Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Rectangular in section with a square butt, gently curved polished edge. 392 grams, 14.2 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. -
Stone Age Flint Microlith Group
Neolithic Period, circa 7th-3th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising a microlith scraper, arrowhead and others. 27.2 grams total, 14-40 mm
Found early 20th century by the vendor's grandfather at Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, UK. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985. Accompanied by a handwritten provenance note.
