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LOT 1712
Stone Age Polished Thin-Butted Handaxe
RüGEN (NORTHERN GERMANY), NORDIC NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4000-2000 B.P.
6 7/8 in. (8 in.) (493 grams total, 17.5 cm (640 grams total, 20.2 cm including stand)).
Knapped and polished in fine honey-coloured flint, trapezoidal in profile and rectangular in section; with rounded butt and slightly convex edge; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceFrom the old German private collection Von Korff family, Germany; inherited by Julian von Korff before 1980, Germany.
with Athena Münzen der Antike, München, prior 2004.
Inscription on object: "Varbelvitz Rügen"; inscription on label: "104"; inscription on label: "335".
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 4.85, for type.
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