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LOT 1465
Stone Age Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead and Hammerstone Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 7/8 - 2 1/8 in. (394 grams total, 48-55 mm).
Comprising two small polished D-shaped axeheads and one with a square butt; sub-spherical hammerstone. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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.
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LOT 1465
Stone Age Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead and Hammerstone Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
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Neolithic Period, circa 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising thirty knives and some other tools. 237 grams total, 39-70 mm
From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. -
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Irregular crescent-shaped scraper with some cortex; with an old inked inscription: '4.SM.1113.C / Twydall'. 91 grams, 82 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age Scandinavian Type Lozenge-Shaped Pierced Battle Axehead
Neolithic Period, 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
With slightly convex cutting edge, second edge to butt. 1.01 kg, 22 cm
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.