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LOT 1544
Stone Age Hand Axe Group
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 300,000 YEARS B.P.
4 1/4 - 4 1/2 in. (673 grams total, 10.7-11.6 cm).
One leaf-shaped and one irregular, each with inked legend 'Morocco-Algeria Border'. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Morocco-Algerian border, North Africa.
Ex UK collection.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Of irregular shape with some cortex showing; with an old inked inscription: '1539 Twydall'. 494 grams, 12.4 cm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
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Stone Age Acheulian Cleaver Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
With a typical brownish patina. 781 grams, 15.5 cm
Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria. From an old Hamburg, German, collection. -
Stone Age Pecked Hammer Stone
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Spherical with traces of pecked manufacture technique and old inked inscription: '874'. 252 Grams, 7 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.
