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Stone Age Long French Gravettian Thick-Crested Knife Blade Stone Age Long French Gravettian Thick-Crested Knife Blade Stone Age Long French Gravettian Thick-Crested Knife Blade
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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]

Provenance

Found 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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