A group of European Palaeolithic and Neolithic stone tools and implements, 
including a polished...

A group of European Palaeolithic and Neolithic stone tools and implements, 

including a polished black stone axe, 16cm, Hattatt collection, no. 1909, an ink inscribed label: ‘Neolithic polished axe-head of unusual shape from Wooler, Northumberland’; a roughly hewn grey flint tool, 11cm,  Hattatt collection no.1105, ink inscription on one side: ‘Early Bronze Age party ground flint hand chisel (British Mus: Verified), Beachy Head Sussex, accompanied by a stand with printed label; a brown flint implement, 14.5cm, Hattatt collection no. 994, ink inscription on one side: ‘Whittling knife, Neolithic c.3000 B.C. from Le Grand Pressigny famous flint mines, 35m. Sth of Tours, France Typical example of that stone’, ‘ Couteau Neolithiques Loc: Grand Pressigny France, 1977’; a grey stone implement, 12.5cm, Hattatt collection no.1168, ink inscription on one end: ‘Craig Llwyd, Neolithic Pick, c.3000 B.C., Augite-Granophyre stone, found at the axe-factory site of Craig Llwyd N.Wales’, the previous two implements accompanied by a stand with printed label; a porcellanite axe, 9cm, Hattatt collection no.1068, white ink inscribed on one side: ‘Neolithic axe porcellanite stone from axe factory site of Tievebulliagh Antrim, N. Ireland.’; a grey flint scraper, 9 x 7cm, Hattatt collection no.1923, black ink inscribed on one side: ‘Neolithic large horned flint shaft scraper. From Beachy Head Sussex.’, a further ink inscription on white: ‘Chapmans Bottom 1.’; two Palaeolithic white flint axes, 9cm and 8cm, with faint ink inscriptions remaining; a grey flint discoidal scraper, 5.5cm diam, Hattatt collection no.936, ink inscribed on one side: ‘Early Bronze Age, discoidal scraper, c. 1500 BC, Mildenhall, Suffolk, Ex R. Hattatt coll.’, mounted on a board with a collection of flint, obsidian and stone implements, mainly from North Africa and the Levant, longest, 11.6cm, smallest 4.2cm, some with printed labels, ex Hattatt collection, ink inscribed labels and numbers on most, and a large rectangular stone object with a hole pierced on a short edge, 19.5 x 13cm                               

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Provenance: Property of a Gentleman;  Ex Richard Hattatt collection; Private collection, Hampshire, UK; Bonhams, London, Fine Antiquities, 12 December 1996, lot 35.

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