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LOT 1602
Stone Age Implement Group
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 450,000-200,000 B.C.
2 - 6 1/4 in. (396 grams total, 5-16 cm).
Comprising: triangular handaxe with square butt; bifacial knife with square butt; small scraper; cordate scraper with spike, marked 'BBM2/25.9.84'. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceGrey implement: ex old Nordic collection.
Old French collection.
Private collection, London.
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Stone Age Knapped Arrowhead and Blade Group
Neolithic, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Two scaphoid and plano-convex in section, one barbed and tanged. 26 grams total, 43-90 mm
Old French collection. Private collection, London. -
Stone Age New Caledonia Polished Green Stone Axehead
Lapita Culture, circa mid 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Lentoid in section with rounded butt and broad edge; old collector's label 'New Caledonia / 6121 : 5'. 645 grams, 16 cm
Found New Caledonia, southwest Pacific Ocean. Acquired from an old Buckingham, UK, collection. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N190; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Knapped Ovate Grey Flint Handaxe
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Ovate in plan and lentoid in section. 73 grams, 67 mm
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.
