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LOT 1524
Stone Age French Grey Stone Scraper
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000-200,000 YEARS B.P.
2 1/4 in. (53 grams, 58 mm).
Ovate in plan with thick butt; old collector's label 'Palæolith[ic] / France'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
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French Stone Age 'Mousterian' Levallois Spear Tip
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French Stone Age 'Neanderthal' Handaxe with Fossil Echinoid
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 300,000-150,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Triangular in profile and biconvex in section with some cortex and embedded fossil to one face; mounted on a custom-made stand. 458 grams, 12.1 cm (516 grams total, 16 cm including stand)
Found Dordogne, France. From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West; also a Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France; his collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s, and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise, Val-d’Oise and the Dordogne.
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