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LOT 2979
Stone Age Scrapers and Shards in Display Frame
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
8 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (320 grams total, 21 x 15.6 cm).
Eleven irregular shards and scrapers mounted on a green background in a gilded frame. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2979
Stone Age Scrapers and Shards in Display Frame
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Sickle
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Crescent-shaped body with tapering ends; inked inscription 'Fakenham, Norfolk'. 69.2 grams, 96 mm
Found Fakenham, Norfolk, UK. Private collection of an East Anglian collector. Ex collection of P. James, Southern England, UK. -
African Homo Erectus Stone Age Knapped Handaxe
Palaeolithic Period, circa 1,000,000-300,000 B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Leaf-shaped in plan with a rounded butt. 103 grams, 89 mm
Found Central Sahara. Ex old German collection of Dr J. Fehkhaber, formed in the 1970s. -
Stone Age Mixed Type Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 84 grams total, 19-35 mm
Ex UK gallery, early 2000s.
