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LOT 1602
Stone Age Knapped Tanged Point Collection
ATERIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 80,000-40,000 B.P.
1 1/2 - 2 1/8 in. (51 grams total, 37-53 mm).
Spade-shaped, triangular and other types, each with a tang. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco, North Africa.
Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000-350,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Cordate in profile with deep orange, yellow and purple glossy patina; mounted on a custom-made stand. 239 grams, 99 mm (282 grams total, 12.1 cm including stand)
From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West; also a Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France; his collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s, and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise, Val-d’Oise and the Dordogne.
Attributed to Homo Heidelbergensis.
