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LOT 1731
Stone Age Tenerian Pecked and Ground Celt Axe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
4 5/8 in. (370 grams, 11.7 cm).
With round-section narrow butt flaring to a broad curved cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound South Central Sahara.
Ex private French collection formed in the 1960s-1970s.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Accompanied by a previous catalogue information ticket.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Nordic Neolithic Period, circa 4000-2000 B.P.Estimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £225
Dressed on all faces, symmetrical in profile with elongated, trapezoidal plan and rectangular cross-section; slightly curved broad sides, slanting neck with slightly rounded cutting edge; narrow faces with traces of retouching, broad faces partly polished at forward end, rear retouched for attachment of the haft; grey flint (silex), marbled in various shades of grey. 663 grams, 18 cm
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Lower Palaeolithic Period, 450,000-280,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Lentoid in section with irregular edge, cortex to one face; collector's label 'P49'. 288 grams, 94 mm
Found Egypt. Acquired from an old German collection. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.P49; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
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Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Triangular in section with narrow square butt and broad curved edge. 125 grams, 18.5 cm
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