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LOT 1476
Very Large Stone Age Knapped Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 240,000-38,000 B.P.
7 1/4 in. (1.44 kg, 18.5 cm).
Roughly leaf-shaped in profile with some cortex to one face. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePreviously acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
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Stone Age Knapped Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
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Stone Age Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead and Hammerstone Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Comprising two small polished D-shaped axeheads and one with a square butt; sub-spherical hammerstone. 394 grams total, 48-55 mm
Found North Africa. 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.
