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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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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 Upnor Clactonian Flint Cleaver
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
An Upnor Clactonian flint cleaver, bearing collector's handwritten inventory information to one face 'Upnor 2B'. 402 grams, 93 mm
Found Upnor, 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. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 8th-5th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
A group of fifty knapped flint arrowheads. 126 grams total, 23-43 mm
Fine condition.
UK gallery, acquired in the 2000s. Property of an English gentleman.