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LOT 1735
Stone Age French Stone Loom or Fishing Weight
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.P.
5 7/8 in. (623 grams, 15 cm).
Tongue-shaped in profile with chamfered lower edge, circular ground hole for suspension, abraded upper edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound east of Paris, France.
From an old Paris collection.
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Acquired on the European 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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Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), amateur prehistorian, former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West, Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France. Collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise and Val-d'Oise. Accompanied by a copy of a French cultural passport. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
