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LOT 1461
Stone Age Pointed Knapped Stone Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000-200,000 B.P.
5 3/4 in. (767 grams, 14.4 cm).
Large and triangular form, heavily patinated. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found North Africa.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.2.
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