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LOT 1641
Stone Age Hafted French Knife
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
4 in. (55 grams, 10.4 cm).
Linguiform in plan and lentoid in section with a rounded tip and a narrow stepped butt; intended to be hafted at the base to a handle of bone or wood; a rare form. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Oise area in Northern France.
From a collection purchased on the UK art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
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British Stone Age Flint Blade Scraper from Fullbrook Farm
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Made on a long flint blade with some original cortex; intricate re-touch on the nose. 30 grams, 85 mm
Found Fullbrook Farm, Surrey, UK, in 1901. From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent.
After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction to a gentleman in Kent. The collection was then sold again in the 2020’s via a UK auction house. -
Stone Age Lozenge-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 104 grams total, 23-47 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
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Stone Age Tenerian Axe Head
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Lentoid in section and linguiform in plan with squared cutting edge and broad, rounded butt. 291 grams, 14.6 cm
Found Sahara, North Africa. Acquired from a US-based collector. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
