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LOT 1123
Stone Age Neolithic Implement Collection
CIRCA 4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 5/8 - 4 3/8 in. (130 grams total, 6.7-11.1 cm).
A group comprising: the substantial tip of a finely knapped bifacial knife/dagger with old collector number '1966'; a small polished chisel with square sides and slightly convex cutting edge and a small axe with tapered sides and deeply convex cutting edge; the first two of Danish workmanship, the third possibly from further south. [3]
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s.
Private UK dealer.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
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Stone Age Twydall Proto Handaxe
Lower Paleolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
A Twydall flint proto hand axe, bearing collector's handwritten inventory id. to one face '1801 Twydall'. 444 grams, 12.3 cm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Danish Neolithic Flint Axehead
4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
A thin-butted wedge-shaped white flint axe head. 440 grams, 15.9 cm
Acquired early 1990s. Ex private American collection; thence by descent. Private Swiss collection since 1998. -
Stone Age Obsidian Knife Core
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
A tongue-shaped obsidian core with vertical fluting where blades have been knapped from the surface. 92 grams, 76 mm
Fine condition.
Ex UK art market, 1970s. Property of a London gentleman.