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LOT 0321
Stone Age Knapped Flint Dagger
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4,000-2,000 B.C.
6 in. (42 grams, 15 cm).
Narrow lentoid-section blade with remains of cortex to the base; repaired. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Lars Otto Johan Holst (1863-1936), a veterinary surgeon who was active in Ronneby, southern Sweden from around 1887. with Skanes Auktionsverk, 31 May 2014, no. 464 [Part].
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.) Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.197, for type.
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