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LOT 1499
Stone Age Flint Retouched Blade
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 1/8 in. (178 grams, 18.1 cm).
Slender two-edged scraper blade. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection formed mostly before 2000.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
With tapering butt and curved cutting edge, plano-convex in section. 144 grams, 13.7 cm
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Stone Age Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Highly polished with broad convex cutting edge, body tapering to a narrow square butt. 288 grams, 11.8 cm
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.
