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LOT 1211
Stone Age Tenerian Culture Stone Tool Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 3/4 - 3 3/4 in. (400 grams total, 45-94 mm).
Comprising 20 tools including knives, scrapers, cores and awls. [20, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Tenera Region of The Green Sahara, South Central Sahara.
Ex private French collection formed in the 1960s-1970s.
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Stone Age Polished Bretagne Stone Axehead
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Comprising a wedge-shaped, lentoid-section body; old hand written collection label: 'Douadic' to one face. 220 grams, 13 cm
Old French collection until 2018. Ex UK collection. -
Stone Age Polished Boat-Shaped Axehead
Neolithic Period, 3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Finely polished in grey-green stone with asymmetric convex cutting edge curving to circular collared 'hammer' butt; pierced centrally to receive wood haft with shallow raised collar to underside. 565 grams, 13 cm
Formerly acquired in the late 1950s. From the family collection of a South East London collector. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Neolithic Axehead
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Wedge-shaped in profile with a narrow butt and slightly convex cutting edge. 188 grams, 12 cm
Ex private UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.