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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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