Lot no. 12
Egyptian Flint Tool Collection. Pre-Dynastic Period, circa 4th millennium B.C. or later. Including piriform scraper tool, single-edged knife with old label 'Gull's wing blade, Egypt', curved blade with old label 'Comma-shaped knife, Egypt', sickle blade and other items with accompanying collector's record card on reverse of a printed invitation to a garden party at Carisbrooke 4th July 1940. Cf. Aufrère, S., Collections des Musées départementaux de Seine-Maritime, Rouen, 1987, pp.188-190, for comparable examples. 165 grams total, 6.2-13.5 mm (2 3/8 - 5 1/4 in.). [6]
From the private collection of Sydney Horne, 1920s-1940s.
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