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LOT 1483
Stone Age 'Oman' Toffee-Brown Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 250,000-200,000 YEARS B.P.
4 7/8 in. (250 grams, 12.5 cm).
Leaf-shaped and biconvex in section, unusual colouration. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Oman, Middle East.
Acquired from an old UK collection in the 1940s.
Ex private collection of Mr J.L.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987,
item 1.24, for type.
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