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LOT 1563
Stone Age Knapped Ovate Knife Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 in. (107 grams total, 51-55 mm).
Each with carefully knapped cutting; three discoid and one lozengiform. [4, 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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Group of Stone Age Flint Tools, Scrapers, Blades and Cores
Mesolithic Period, circa 9000-3450 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
A mixed group of twenty-one worked blades and other flint tools. 390 grams total, 22-55 mm
Found Portland Bill, Dorset, UK, 1970s. Ex Hampshire, UK, collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Mesolithic men made use of a vast range of materials and mass-production techniques to make the special tools they needed. One of the oldest examples of a 'factory' intended for large-scale production was discovered by Grahame Clark, in the underground of a reclaimed field at Star Carr, Yorkshire. -
Stone Age Tenerian Knapped Green Jasper Scraper
Neolithic Period, circa 2500-1500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Irregular discoid scraper with long cutting edge; supplied with a custom-made stand. 52 grams, 75 mm (76 grams total, 95 mm including stand)
Found Air Mountains, Mauritania, Northern Sahara, North Africa. Acquired on the British art market. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Irregular-shaped; with an old inked inscription: '8.SM.1028.A Twydall'. 68 grams, 74 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.
