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LOT 1125
Stone Age Knapped Flint Knife Blade Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
1 3/8 - 3 1/8 in. (223 grams total, 34-81 mm).
A group of fifty knapped flint blades. [50, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, acquired in the 2000s.
Property of an English gentleman.
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Stone Age Neolithic Polished Axehead
Circa 4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
A finely polished, slightly asymmetric axe with thin body tapering to a pointed butt with convex cutting edge in a mottled granite; possibly from northern Britain. 271 grams, 18 cm
Acquired 1990s. UK private collection. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher. -
Stone Age Boat-Shaped Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
A diorite axe-hammer, with rounded butt chamfered at the edge and with convex sides, sub-rectangular in section, dark green fine-grained stone. 635 grams, 10 cm
Acquired 1971-1972. From the collection of the vendor's father. Property of a London, UK, collector.
During Neolithic period, while objects for everyday use, such as knife blades, arrows and lance tips were often only knapped - albeit with very fine retouching - and people soon learnt how to polish selected tools and equipment with sand for a smooth surface. Rotating tubular bone and sand made it possible to fit axes and hammers with a pierced 'eye' for the handle. This eye socket is the preliminary stage of the Bronze Age socket. -
Danish Neolithic Flint Axehead
4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
A thin-butted wedge-shaped white flint axe head. 440 grams, 15.9 cm
Acquired early 1990s. Ex private American collection; thence by descent. Private Swiss collection since 1998.
