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LOT 1601
Stone Age Polished Stone Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
3 1/4 in. (206 grams, 82 mm).
Tongue-shaped in plan and lentoid in profile; fine polished finish. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK private collection since at least 1946.
Property of a West London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 1601
Stone Age Polished Stone Axehead
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead and Scraper Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising: a large blade with cortex to one face; small tongue-shaped scraper; leaf-shaped hanaze in orange-tan with narrow point; biconvex-section cleaver with rounded butt. 397 grams total, 4.6-11.9 cm
From the private collection of a Sussex, UK, gentleman. -
French Stone Age Neanderthal Levallois Knapped Point - Ex Boucher-de-Perthes
Middle Palaeolithic Period, 150,000-60,000 B.P.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £25
Triangular flint point labelled 'Celtique Trouve avec des os et de vases. Toubiere de la Somme’ (Celtic, Found with bones and vases, peat beds of the Somme). 18.5 grams, 63 mm
Found by Boucher-des-Perthes in the 1800s. Ex Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788-1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes. Ex Sir Arthur John Evans (1851–1941), British archaeologist and son of Sir John Evans (1823-1908). Ex Henry Dewey (1876–1965), a prominent British geologist and archaeologist who made seminal contributions to the study of the Palaeolithic period. Ex R Richard Widdowson, a well-known UK-based antiquities specialist who owned the gallery 'Ancient Times' in Scarborough in Southern England. Ex J Weston Smith. Accompanied by an illustrated envelope and two collector's information cards. -
Stone Age Pierced Boat-Shaped Axehead
Neolithic Period, 4th millennium B.P.Estimate: £400 - 600 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £222
Boat-shaped in plan with central drilling; domed hammer-face to butt, carination to each broad face. 656 grams, 14.8 cm
Acquired in the 1996. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
