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LOT 1501
Stone Age 'Troussencourt' Knapped Adze
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 3000-2000 B.C.
4 7/8 in. (248 grams, 12.5 cm).
Triangular in section with parallel sides, broad butt and edge; marked 'Troussencourt'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Troussencourt, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
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Stone Age Neolithic and Later Flint Tool Group
6th millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £65
Mixed group including scrapers and other items; offered with three large and three small reproduction arrowheads. 351 grams total, 2.4-10 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Stone Age Polished Stone Animal Idol Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £3,380
Each with stub limbs and rounded profile; each mounted on a custom-made display stand. 2.01 kg total, 8.4-15.5 cm including stand
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.
The sculptures represent farm animals in the Neolithic period, in this case two bovines and a dove. Animal figurines seem to be a recurrent feature in the earlier Neolithic settlements, in the Balkans and in the Levant. It is significant that in the Neolithic Mediterranean, the animals depicted seem to be domesticated, thus suggesting that its reference points were within the confines of the community. -
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Knife
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Triangular-section blade; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS.1252.A / Twydall'. 46 grams, 91 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.
