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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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Triangular in plan with chamfered edges. 3.27 grams, 30 mm
Found Farnham, 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.
