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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]
Provenance
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.
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