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LOT 1468
Stone Age French Grand-Pressigny 'Prismatic Core' Knapped Flint Core
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 in. (296 grams, 10 cm).
Carefully knapped with the scars where several large flakes were struck off, to form a beautifully prepared prismatic core which differs in the way it was produced to a more typical livre-de-beurre. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound France.
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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 5.35, for type.
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LOT 1468
Stone Age French Grand-Pressigny 'Prismatic Core' Knapped Flint Core
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
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