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LOT 1697
Stone Age Long French Gravettian Thick-Crested Knife Blade
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 35,000-25,000 B.P.
4 3/8 in. (30.5 grams, 11.2 cm).
D-shaped in section with re-touch around most of the circumference; inked findspot to underside' Soucy sur Vercoulon'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Sougy, Loiret France.
Acquired in the 1970s-1990s.
From the collections of J.R Vircoulon and of the famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023).
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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LOT 1697
Stone Age Long French Gravettian Thick-Crested Knife Blade
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
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Stone Age Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Ovate in form with cortex to the rounded butt; bifacial type. 402 grams, 12.4 cm
Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), amateur prehistorian, former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West, Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France. Collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise and Val-d'Oise. Accompanied by a copy of a French cultural passport. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Large Stone Age Animal Idol Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.P. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £1,820
Comprising bird and quadruped figures carved in the round with rounded profile; each mounted on a custom-made stand. 1.59 kg total, 9.3-11.7 cm including stand
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. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12338-224208. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Most scholars consider these as symbols of the fertility cult and as evidence of early agricultural organisation of the earliest human society. The Stone Age people may have considered figures such as these to represent animals with their life-giving powers. -
Stone Age Polished Thin-Butted Handaxe
Rügen (Northern Germany), Nordic Neolithic Period, circa 4000-2000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
Knapped and polished in fine honey-coloured flint, trapezoidal in profile and rectangular in section; with rounded butt and slightly convex edge; mounted on a custom-made stand. 493 grams total, 17.5 cm (640 grams total, 20.2 cm including stand)
From the old German private collection Von Korff family, Germany; inherited by Julian von Korff before 1980, Germany. with Athena Münzen der Antike, München, prior 2004. Inscription on object: "Varbelvitz Rügen"; inscription on label: "104"; inscription on label: "335". This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
