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| NORDIC NEOLITHIC VOLCANIC STONE THIN-BUTTED AXE Gray in color with white inclusions, the elongated trapezoidal form slightly convex on both wide faces, with a rounded butt tapering to the sharp rounded cutting edge. Ca. 4000-2000 BC L. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm.) Ex Lawrence Sunde collection, Copenhagen; Christensen Fund, Christie’s, London, 7 July 1993, lot 32 (part). For a similar example see no. 4.36, p. 60 in MacGregor, ed., Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green. LC1202C $4,000 Sales |
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