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LOT 1601
Stone Age Jasper Bifacial Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P.
2 1/4 in. (52 grams, 58 mm).
Intricately worked, with vivid mustard-yellow coloration. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Fontmaure, France.
Acquired in the 1970s-1990s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023).
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