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LOT 1599
Stone Age Mousterian Neanderthal Flint Point
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000- 60,000 B.P.
3 1/4 in. (61 grams, 84 mm).
Triangular point with plano-convex profile, some grey patina. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Yonne, Dordogne, 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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