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LOT 1566
Stone Age Large Flint Blade and Burin Group
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 28,000-22,000 YEARS B.P.
2 3/4 - 4 5/8 in. (99 grams total, 7-11.7 cm).
Each with inked findspot: 'Gravière Saint-Onger / Bergerac / JRV', 'Vallée de la Cou[..] / 14.3.68', 'Rabier / près Lac[.]queres' (and feint pencilled 'Rabier' below). [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Graviere, Lanquais and De LaCoulc, France, in the 1960s.
Acquired in the 1970s-1990s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023).
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Stone Age Egyptian Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 450,000-280,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lentoid in section and trapezoidal in plan. 345 grams, 11.6 cm
Found Egypt. From a collection formed during the 1970s-1980s and acquired on the British art market. By descent to the current owner in 1988. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. -
Stone Age Chatellerault Acheulean Bifacial Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 480,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
With curved cutting edge and thick butt. 277 grams, 95 mm
Found Châtellerault, Vienne, Tour, France. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.P46; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Arrowhead and Other Artefact Group
Mainly 4th-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Knapped flint blades and other items, some with old collector's labels or inked findspot legend. 167 grams total, 18-60 mm
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.
