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LOT 1535
Stone Age 'Fontmaure Jasper' Blade, Piercers and Scraper Group
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P.
1 5/8 - 2 in. (72 grams total, 42-52 mm).
Group of well-made examples of the Mousterian tool set, with the vivid colours; one with inked find spot legend '1970 / Fontmaure'. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Fontmaure, France, in 1970.
Acquired in the 1970s-1990s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023).
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LOT 1535
Stone Age 'Fontmaure Jasper' Blade, Piercers and Scraper Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
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Stone Age Acheulean Dark Red Quartzite 'Homo Erectus' Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 1,000,000-500,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Ellipsoid in plan with irregular lateral spur. 610 grams, 15.5 cm
Found Northern Sahara. From a collection formed during the 1970s-1980s and acquired on the British art market. By descent to the current owner in 1988. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. -
Stone Age Partly Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
With broad curved edge and flat rear striking face; shank smoothed but unfinished. 270 grams, 94 mm
Possibly Irish. Acquired in Oxford, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N170; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Angular and Other Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface scaphoid flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 51 grams total, 26-49 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
