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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]
Provenance
Found 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.
Literature
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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