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LOT 1583
Stone Age Knapped Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 - 5 5/8 in. (1.1 kg total, 12.8-14.2 cm).
Comprising: one with broad butt and squared cutting edge; one similar with rounded edge. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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Stone Age Handaxe and Neolithic Long Blade Dagger from Le Grand Pressigny
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 150,000-60,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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. 276 grams total, 8.5-11.6 cm
Found Le Grand Pressigny, France. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe Group
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: triangular flint blade broken at butt with old inked inscription 'Arment./ZC.6'; irregular curved cleaver, triangular in section with old inked inscription 'Arment./ZC.7', cortex remaining to the reverse; triangular flint blade with straight butt and old inked inscriptions 'Verneuil / J4.137.5' and '73.4'; long flake blade with applied sticker 'D', old inked inscription 'Verneuil / J4.141.N' and 'D.'. 392 grams total, 8.3-12.4 cm
From the collection of François Bigot (1950-2009). with Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 28th September 2021.
'Arment.' in these inscriptions may refer to Armentières on the Franco-Belgian border. -
Stone Age 'River Yare' Flint Cleaver-Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 500,000-240,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Substantial cleaver with one worked edge; old collector's label 'From the River = Sandown, IOW / River Yare / Alveston - to Sandown'. 1.11 kg, 15.2 cm
Found by the River Yare, between Alvestone and Sandown, Isle of Wight, UK. Ex Victor Brox collection, UK, formed during the 1980s-1990s. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
