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LOT 1611
Stone Age Mixed Type Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 8TH-6TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
7/8 - 2 in. (115 grams total, 21-50 mm).
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [50, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx UK gallery, early 2000s.
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LOT 1611
Stone Age Mixed Type Arrowhead Collection
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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British Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 150,000-60,000 B.P.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Piriform body with pointed tip, an old handwritten label on one side. 262 grams, 12.3 cm
Found Test Road, Huzbourough Copse, Hampshire, UK, June 1965. From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s. -
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French Stone Age Solutrean Knapped Flint Leaf Point - Ex Sir Arthur Evans
Upper Palaeolithic Period, 22,000-17,000 B.P.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular, flat point of grey-brown flint, one blade is slightly excurvate, and the other excurvated at the terminal end, the base broken straight across. 15.5 grams, 56 mm
Found in Les Eyries Cave, Dordogne, France. Received in a Museum exchange in 1900. Ex Sir Arthur John Evans (1851–1941), British archaeologist and son of Sir John Evans (1823-1908). Ex Henry Dewey (1876–1965), a prominent British geologist and archaeologist who made seminal contributions to the study of the Palaeolithic period. Ex R Richard Widdowson, a well-known UK-based antiquities specialist who owned the gallery 'Ancient Times' in Scarborough in Southern England. Ex J Weston Smith. Accompanied by an illustrated envelope and two collector's information cards. -
French Stone Age Knapped Flint Long Crested Blade Scraper
Gravettian Period, circa 33,000-21,000 B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Slender curved blade with faceted upper face and extensive retouch to one edge; old label 'La Croze du Tayac'. 16.2 grams, 92 mm
From La Croze du Tayac, France. Acquired in the 1970s-1990s. From the collections of the famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023). From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
