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LOT 1502
Stone Age Granite Donut-Shaped Macehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/8 in. (322 grams, 80 mm).
Finely worked; with old collector's abel 'Ethnographical / 55-39 / collection'; possibly Tenerian culture. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from a Buckingham, UK, collection.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N181; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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