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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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Neolithic Period, 3500-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Triangular in section with square butt and edge, much cortex remaining. 211 grams, 11.8 cm
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Stone Age 'Wanel' Knapped Flint Pick
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Triangular in section with rounded butt, narrow point (absent); inked 'WANEL' . 173 grams, 11 cm
Found Wanel, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
