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LOT 0321
Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 30,000-15,000 B.C.
7 3/4 in. (541 grams, 19.5 cm).
Pointed handaxe with broad, square butt and lozenge-section profile. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a very old collection based on the cabinet patination.
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.
Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 3.1.
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