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LOT 1592
Stone Age 'Homo Erectus' Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 300,000-120,000 B.P.
5 5/8 in. (6 in.) (454 grams, 14.3 cm (506 grams total, 15.2 cm including stand)).
Lentoid in section and cordate in profile, made from a Levallois flake; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound North West Africa.
Formally part of a French collection built up in the mid 1900s.
Acquired on the UK art market from Mr P M based in Kent.
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Large Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 414 grams total, 36-61 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis. -
Danish Stone Age Knapped Flint Borer and Scraper Group
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
Including ovate, plano-convex and other types. 130 grams total, 38-71 mm
Found Cuffley, Hertfordshire and North Creake, Norfolk, UK. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Large Stone Age Polished Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Triangular in profile and lentoid in section with broad edge and pointed butt; mounted on a custom-made stand. 527 grams, 18.5 cm (602 grams total, 23.2 cm including stand)
Found Ventoupe, France. From the private collection of a late French gentleman collector.
