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LOT 1470
Stone Age Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/4 - 3 7/8 in. (461 grams total, 69-98 mm).
Including one with angled cutting edge, one with gouged blade, and other types. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound North Africa.
Ex Ian Richardson collection, Sunderland, UK.
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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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Irregular-shaped flint tool with some cortex remaining; with an old inked inscription: '1802 / Twydall'. 913 grams, 13.4 cm
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 Axehead Collection
Palaeolithic-Neolithic Period, circa 200,000-4000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising: two teardrop-shaped handaxes, one with absent tip; a pecked fusiform axehead with conical butt. 990 grams total, 12.3-14.5 cm
Previously acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of a Kent, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Of triangular form each with a broad cutting edge and narrow butt. 387 grams total, 8.4-10.7 cm
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.
