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LOT 0326
Superb Stone Age 'Dordogne' Toffee-Brown Knapped Flint Ficron Bifacial Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 240,000- 38,000 B.P.
5 1/8 in. (314 grams, 12.9 cm).
Cordiform with large residue of cortex at the butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Dordogne, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.17, for type.
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LOT 0326
Superb Stone Age 'Dordogne' Toffee-Brown Knapped Flint Ficron Bifacial Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe
Mesolithic Period, circa 30,000-15,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Pointed handaxe with broad, square butt and lozenge-section profile. 541 grams, 19.5 cm
From a very old collection based on the cabinet patination. 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. -
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Stone Age 'Somme' Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Narrow body with broad butt; old collector's label to one side 'Hache Taillée / en silex patine blanche / L.13cm - Neolithique / Somme. 8000 à 3000 AJC / Homo-sapiens-sapiens'. 147 grams, 12.7 cm
Found in the Somme Region, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Flint Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowhead; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 152 grams total, 24-52 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
