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LOT 1517
Stone Age Scrapers from Various locations of France Including Lamondie and Larlux
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 28,000-22,000 YEARS B.P.
2 5/8 - 3 1/2 in. (180 grams total, 67-88 mm).
Marked 'Poligny/2915', 'Lamonie.24 / Montgetell 3.7.68', 'La Vergne Larlux /24/JRV', 'Vengues/57'. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound France.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
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LOT 1517
Stone Age Scrapers from Various locations of France Including Lamondie and Larlux
Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
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Stone Age Acheulian Cleaver Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
With a typical brownish patina. 781 grams, 15.5 cm
Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria. From an old Hamburg, German, collection. -
Stone Age Arrowhead and Scraper Group
Neolithic Period, circa 3rd millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £59
Including narrow flint spearheads with barbs, D-shaped blades, pointed burins and other tools; the larger spearheads probable reproductions. 427 grams total, 3.3-14.5 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. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Knapped on all faces; with an old inked inscription: '2. PB.12.40.C. Twydall'. 120 grams, 76 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.
