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LOT 1120
Stone Age Knapped Flint Knife Blade Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
1 - 2 1/8 in. (156 grams total, 24-55 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 Ceremonial Axe
Circa 10th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
A very finely polished axe with rounded sides tapering to a pointed butt with convex cutting edge in a mottled grey-green stone with white inclusions; with a custom-made wood stand bearing a label reading 'Neolithic Polished axehead 10,000-3,500 BC. / Originally from Musee Servaire. / Condat, France. Found in Brittany, Ploemel 1970s.' in three lines. 560 grams total, 20.3 cm high including stand
Pristine condition. Rare.
Found Brittany, 1970s. Acquired 2019 from Musee Servaire (Museum), Condat, France. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
The workmanship and quality in the polishing on this axe is beautifully achieved; such axes, especially when in exotic materials such as seen here, were most probably intended for presentation or ceremonial use and were widely traded. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Retouched Implement
Lower Paleolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
A retouched Twydall flint implement bearing a handwritten collector's id. to the body '1433 Twydall'. 364 grams, 94 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age Upnor Clactonian Flint Cleaver
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
An Upnor Clactonian flint cleaver, bearing collector's handwritten inventory information to one face 'Upnor 2B'. 402 grams, 93 mm
Found Upnor, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK.
