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LOT 1452
Stone Age Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 5/8 - 2 3/4 in. (355 grams total, 40-69 mm).
Including one D-shaped with angled cutting edge, one with acute facets forming the edge, 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 Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Irregular scraper; with an old inked inscription: '2.PB.1215.C / Twydall'. 58 grams, 75 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 Flint Scraper Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Comprising: two scrapers, two flakes from a core and two Bann flakes from Ireland; all with old collector's cards and inked catalogue numbers. 91 grams total, 33-86 mm
Probably from the collection of General Sir George Cockburn (1763-1947), Shanganagh Castle, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, sold at auction between 1935-1939. Accompanied by old handwritten identification cards. -
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.