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Stone Age French Grand-Pressigny 'Livre De Beurre' Knapped Flint Core
Stone Age French Grand-Pressigny 'Livre De Beurre' Knapped Flint Core
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Neolithic Period, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C. Carefully knapped to form a typical prepared livre-de-beurre showing the scars where several large flakes were struck. Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 5.35, for type. 296 grams, 10 cm (4 in.).

Found France. 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 French Grand-Pressigny 'Livre De Beurre' Knapped Flint Core

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