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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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Giant Stone Age Grimes Graves Ovate Flint Racloir
Neolithic Period, circa 3rd-early 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Thin and slightly curved in section with long curved cutting edge; with inked find spot legend ' "Giant Racloir" / Grimes Graves / 1918' and label to reverse 'PO204'. 328 grams, 14.5 cm
Found Grimes Graves, UK, in 1918. Acquired from a Buckingham, UK, collection. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N189; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Large Stone Age Knapped Black Stone Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
With broad cutting edge, lozenge-shaped in section; repaired. 668 grams, 20 cm
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. -
Stone Age Flint Retouched Blade
Neolithic Period, 8th-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Slender two-edged scraper blade. 178 grams, 18.1 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection formed mostly before 2000. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
