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LOT 1567
Stone Age Tenerian Pecked Celt Axe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9000-7000 B.P.
2 3/4 in. (217 grams, 71 mm).
With round-section broad butt flaring to a curved cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx French collection formed 1960s-1970s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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