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LOT 1573
Stone Age Mousterian 'Fontmaure' Jasper Levellious Tools
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000- 60,000 B.P.
1 3/4 -3 1/4 in. (150 grams total, 46-81 mm).
Includes a finely worked drill, from Fontmaure, the jasper with vibrant colours and traces of chalcedony running though it. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Fontmaure, Vienne, France.
Ex 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 1573
Stone Age Mousterian 'Fontmaure' Jasper Levellious Tools
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
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Stone Age Flint Partial Arrowhead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 5000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising of nine pressure flaked partial arrowheads. 24.8 grams total, 15-41 mm
Found Thames Valley in the 19th century. From an antiquarian Palaeolithic study collection, Shropshire, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Flint Knife on Collector's Board
Mesolithic-Early Neolithic Period, circa 9000-5000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
A hard hammer struck knife blade, mounted on an old card with collector's inscription: 'FLINT KNIFE / THAMES VALLEY GRAVELS'. 12.7 grams, 69 mm
Found Thames Valley in the 19th century. From an antiquarian Palaeolithic study collection, Shropshire, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Lozenge-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 88 grams total, 17-45 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
