Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:: 14th July 1924

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/160

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

408/456 page 28

Pa. 28 256 || ‘Ten Fuint IMPLEMENTS, with serrated edges, probably harpoons; a wonderful selection, both on account of variety and condition. The specimens range from 3 an. handled daggers of lots 204, 205, 224, 228, 249, &c., has suggested some line of communication between the two countries; though the fact may be merely a coincidence, resulting solely from like needs producing like effects) 10 ke>, 356) A series of fifteen serrated implements, of flint of triangular “=~. g§ection, the notching on all. three sides. , They are obviously unsuitable to use as saws, and were probably arrow-heads—21 wm. to 42 an. long 1d 257 A collection of forty-two flint arrow-heads, comprising three of the tanged form, fifteen of the barbed, and a number of the “ transverse” shapes, the latter characteristically Danish. A highly interesting and representative lot 42 a, BE ‘Thirteen flint javelin-heads, barbed and plain, Goladined a long ; the others range from 31 to 7? an. long 13 a Six flint axes, with squared sides and broad butts, almost square in section—31 im. to 73 wm. long; also three _gbointed peel in flint—14 in. to 52 in. long 9 Four specimens of unground etees, with squared sides— 261 Six polished flint axes, with squared sides and oblong section Pm an. to 64 an. long 6 yf. ab en others, of similar type—34 an. to 54 am. long 10 ‘stag’ s-horn rings; a string of amber beau from passage graves and stone cists, excavated at Viborg in Jutland ; fourteen loose amber besas some of large size ; two bone and one stag’s-horn ditto | , 80 264 Four harpoon-heads, of bone and stag’s-horn, two of which have been set with “‘pygmy’”’ flint blades, explaining, perhaps, the liberal use of these pygmy flints in prehistoric times J.

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