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LOT 1619
Stone Age Mousterian Point
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000- 60,000 B.P.
3 3/8 in. (63.6 grams, 87 mm).
Knapped light grey flint with partial cortex handle with old inked collector's inscription to verso: '16 St Front'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound St Front, France.
From a large French collection built in the early 1900s.
Acquired on the European 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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