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LOT 2879
Stone Age Mixed Type Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 - 1 5/8 in. (115 grams total, 21-41 mm).
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads, including one tanged type; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [50, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx UK gallery, early 2000s.
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LOT 2879
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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Yonne French Stone Age Levalliois Notched Point
Middle Palaeolithic Period, Mousterian, circa 150,000-60,000 B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
A flat-section Levallois Point with bulb to the butt, fine retouch down both sides and with a well-executed notch. 40.2 grams, 81 mm
From Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France. From a large French collection built up in the early 1900s. Acquired on the European art market in the 2020s. From a private collection.
Made by Neanderthal. Textbook example -
Edouard Latet - La Madelaine Stone Age Knife with Label
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular-section long-edged knife with old printed paper label '['C' monogram] [L]a Madelaine / Dordogne / 1863 France No.'. 32.3 grams, 10.2 cm
Found by Edouard Latet, La Madeleine, Dordogne, France, 1863. This is a very desired label from pretty much the founder of French Pre-History. This knife was gifted to Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham; who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew.
Edouard Lartet, financed and helped by the Englishman Henry Christy, were the first systematic excavators of the site, starting in 1863. They published their findings in 1875 under the name of the Age of the Reindeer. Objects that were found at the La Madeleine site are distributed among a number of museums, including the Muséum de Toulouse, the Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St. Germain-en-Laye and the British Museum. -
Fawcett Collection Danish Stone Age Knapped Flint Lanceolate Dagger Blade with Fawcett Monogram
Late Neolithic Period, circa 4,400-3,500 B.P.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Leaf-shaped in plan with notch to the butt, inked 'DEN.47' notation beneath monogram; complete and in wonderful condition, offered in a wooden presentation case. 17.11 grams, 85 mm
Found Denmark, 1947(?). Ex Dr Hugh Alderson Fawcett (1891-1982), a general practitioner and antiquarian who built up an important collection of ancient implements, weapons and ornaments. The present part of the collection having been gifted to Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham; who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew.
