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LOT 1436
Stone Age 'Plazac' Knapped Flint Cordate Handaxe
MOUSTERIAN PERIOD, 200,000-30,000 B.C.
4 1/4 in. (187 grams, 10.9 cm).
Biconvex in section with narrow point. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Plazac, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987,
item 1.23, for type.
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