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LOT 1563
Very Large Stone Age Mousterian Levelious Flint Knife
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000- 60,000 B.P.
4 3/4 in. (215 grams, 12 cm).
Broadly ovate knapped from buff to light grey flint, made by Neanderthal man. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Bourgogne Franche-Compte Region, France.
From a large French collection built up in the early 1900s.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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