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LOT 1514
Stone Age Handaxe and Neolithic Long Blade Dagger from Le Grand Pressigny
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 YEARS B.P.
3 3/8 - 4 1/2 in. (276 grams total, 8.5-11.6 cm).
Group comprising a rounded handaxe with inked number 'AR2753' and indistinct reference above; dagger with inked reference '.9904.87'; with beautiful workmanship to each side and the tip. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Le Grand Pressigny, France.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
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LOT 1514
Stone Age Handaxe and Neolithic Long Blade Dagger from Le Grand Pressigny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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Stone Age 'Swanscombe' Classic Pointed Flint Handaxe
Palaeolithic Period, circa 425,000-362,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Classic pointed handaxe from the type-site at Swanscombe, Kent; mainly hard hammer struck with two small areas of cortex remaining near the butt. 121 grams, 88 mm
Found Swanscombe, Kent, UK. From a private Norfolk, UK, collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
The middle gravels from which this axe most likely came date to the Hoxnian Interglacial period at MIS 11 (425-362 B.C.) and are associated with the only known hominin remains from the Hoxnian which had features of both Neanderthal and modern humans. (Wymer 1999, p.77.) -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe Group
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 480,000-250,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising three flakes: a small triangular arrowhead, a lanceolate blade and a piriform blade; small worked piriform handaxe with indistinct inked inscription to the base 'Langdon's C[...]' (perhaps Langdon's Cliff, Dover, Kent). 210 grams total, 4.8-11 cm
From the collection of François Bigot (1950-2009). with Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 28th September 2021. -
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Stone Age Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
With broad curved cutting edge tapering body and narrow tip, polished surfaces. 164 grams, 14 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.
