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LOT 1227
Stone Age Knife Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/4 - 2 1/4 in. (88 grams total, 31-57 mm).
Comprising thirty flint knives. [30, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
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Large Stone Age Belgian Flint Implement Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 8,000-6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Comprising: large blade cores (4); long blade flakes (3) and a finely knapped slender axe with convex cutting edge tapering to a near pointed butt; most with inked 'Spiennes' findspot note and with eleven inked and typed paper tickets giving details, some dated to 1950s. 3.5 kg total, 14 - 23 cm
Found Spiennes, Belgium French private collection. French export certificate no.231265 issued on 05/01/2022, EU licence 2022DMF0651.
The blade cores and blades are very similar in form and size to the famous 'livres de beurre' examples found at Grand Pressigny, France. -
Stone Age Pierced Battle Axe-Hammer
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
With rounded butt and convex sides, pierced for attachment to the handle. 921 grams, 18 cm
Found near Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, by the vendor's father. Property of a Suffolk lady.
Axe-hammers like this one were used in felling trees to create fields from the natural woodland, and in shaping timber for building. The great number of stone axes and axe-hammers from Nordic European areas are a measure of how densely populated some parts of the Europe had become by five thousand years ago. -
Stone Age Flint Implement Collection
Neolithic Period, 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising a group of mixed stone implements, mostly in flint or chert and knapped, including blades, scrapers and points; some broken and probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 608 grams total, 37-98 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
