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LOT 1472
Stone Age Polished Red Granite Bird's Beak Axe-Hammer
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C. OR LATER
3 5/8 in. (224 grams, 91 mm).
With one large curved face and a shorter beak to the rear, D-shaped in section with ground socket. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Denmark.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N212; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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LOT 1472
Stone Age Polished Red Granite Bird's Beak Axe-Hammer
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
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Natural stone block with lightly dressed surface, the narrow edge minimally worked to represent a human face. 7 kg, 26 cm
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Neolithic Period, 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Finely worked; with old collector's abel 'Ethnographical / 55-39 / collection'; possibly Tenerian culture. 322 grams, 80 mm
Acquired from a Buckingham, UK, collection. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N181; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Stone Age South Downs Flint Spokeshave
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Finely polished flint axehead with broad curved edge; chipped and broken, probably re-used as a draw-knife or spokeshave using the exposed curved edges; old inked legend 'Nr. Beachy H[ead] / polished + broken / flint celt / 10.6.64'. 143 grams, 79 mm
Found Beachy Head, South Downs, Sussex, UK. Acquired from Oxford, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N165; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
