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LOT 1504
Stone Age Flint Scrapers with Reproduction Axes and Spearheads
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.-20TH CENTURY A.D.
1 - 10 1/4 in. (636 grams total, 2.5-26 cm).
Mixed group including some ancient scrapers and modern copies of axes and spearheads. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1970s onwards.
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LOT 1504
Stone Age Flint Scrapers with Reproduction Axes and Spearheads
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Scraper Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Small D-shaped scraper with old inked inscription '4.SS.1138.C / TWYDALL'. 64 grams, 55 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. -
Massive Stone Age 'Reims' Knapped Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
With facetted point and lentoid section. 646 grams, 18.5 cm
Found Reims, France. -
Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Teardrop-shaped with pointed butt and crescent cutting edge. 122 grams, 86 mm
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.
