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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 Mousterian Bifacial Flint Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 150,000- 60,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
With mottled cream and pale blue coloration, silky patina; with inked find spot legend '4 / 22/11/70 / Ste. Gemme / 129'. 100 grams, 78 mm
Found Ste Gemme, France, on 1 November 1976. From the collection of the amateur archaeologist M. Allais, formed in the mid-1900s. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Attributed to Homo neanderthalensis. -
Stone Age Polished Basalt Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Ellipsoid in section with rounded butt, curved and polished cutting edge. 587 grams, 14 cm
Possibly Scottish. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N194; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Upnor Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
A Clactonian worked flint gouge; old collector's legend 'Upnor / A-3'. 278 grams, 12.4 cm
Found Upnor, 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.
