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LOT 1677
Stone Age French Knife Blade Collection
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 40,000-22,000 YEARS B.P.
2 1/2 - 2 7/8 in. (36 grams total, 64-72 mm).
Three parallel-sided blades in mottled honey-coloured flint. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Bergerac with the classic Bergerac patina.
Acquired in the 1970s-1990s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023).
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Stone Age Thick-Butted Knapped Axe Head
Nordic Neolithic Period, circa 4000-2000 B.P.Estimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £225
Dressed on all faces, symmetrical in profile with elongated, trapezoidal plan and rectangular cross-section; slightly curved broad sides, slanting neck with slightly rounded cutting edge; narrow faces with traces of retouching, broad faces partly polished at forward end, rear retouched for attachment of the haft; grey flint (silex), marbled in various shades of grey. 663 grams, 18 cm
Ex Dr Siegfried Zimmer, circa 1950. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Stone Age Prehistoric Skull Replica
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £215
With rounded brain-pan, articulating mandible; perhaps Homo habilis, an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3 million years ago to 1.65 million years ago. 1.54 kg, 20.2 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. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Stone Age British Flint Scraper Group
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Mainly lentoid-section edged tools, one with inked legend 'Middle Brow B/R' '123'. 334 grams total, 68-85 mm
Found South Downs, Sussex, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection nos.N123,191,207 and 208; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
