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LOT 1560
Stone Age Neanderthal Mousterian Flint Knife
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000- 60,000 B.P.
3 1/4 in. (89 grams, 84 mm).
Slightly curved triangular point with plano-convex profile, cream and orange patina. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Yonne, Bourgogne Franche-Compte Region, France.
From a large French collection built up 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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