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LOT 1705
Stone Age Polished Flint French Axe Head
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.P.
6 3/8 in. (318 grams, 16.2 cm).
Scaphoid in section with irregular rounded butt and curved edge, polished; old find spot label 'Fontigny Lalbie'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound east of Paris, France.
From an old Parisian collection.
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.2, for type.
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