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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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Elegant Stone Age 'Salisbury' Slender Grey Knapped Flint Adze
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Biconvex in section, long and slender with narrow butt. 147 grams, 14.4 cm
Found whilst fieldwalking in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Ex English private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
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Stone Age British Grey and White Knapped Flint Ficron Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 480,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
With one convex and one straight side, rounded butt, broad tip. 384 grams, 12.3 cm
Found UK. British private collection formed from the 1970s-1990s; thence by family descent. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Fatjanovo Culture Battle Axehead
Neolithic Period, late 3rd-early 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
A finely polished boat-shaped axe in dark grey stone, with expanded asymmetric convex cutting edge tapering to a 'hammer' butt, drilled to receive handle. 850 grams, 18 cm
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.
