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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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Lower Palaeolithic Period, 250,000-60,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Cordate in plan with broad butt; thin point 251 grams, 11.9 cm
Found Plazac, Dordogne Region, France. From an old private collection formed in the 1950s. From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector. -
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Stone Age British Knapped Flint Tool Group
Neolithic Period, 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising discoid, lozengiform and triangular scrapers, flint nodule with inked 'Spionnos' inscription, and other items, some mounted on glazed ceramic tile bases. 1.06 kg total, 3.6-12 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. -
Stone Age 'Oman' Toffee-Brown Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, 250,000-200,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Leaf-shaped and biconvex in section, unusual colouration. 250 grams, 12.5 cm
Found Oman, Middle East. Acquired from an old UK collection in the 1940s. Ex private collection of Mr J.L. From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
