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LOT 1491
Stone Age Mousterian Bifacial Flint Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000- 60,000 B.P.
3 1/8 in. (100 grams, 78 mm).
With mottled cream and pale blue coloration, silky patina; with inked find spot legend '4 / 22/11/70 / Ste. Gemme / 129'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Ste Gemme, France, on 1 November 1976.
From the collection of the amateur archaeologist M. Allais, formed in the mid-1900s.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Attributed to Homo neanderthalensis.
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Upper Palaeolithic Period, circa 40,000-20,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
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Stone Age Partly Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
With broad curved edge and flat rear striking face; shank smoothed but unfinished. 270 grams, 94 mm
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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.
