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Lot 13

Eleven Paleolithic Quartzite Cordiform Hand Axes

Lot 13

Eleven Paleolithic Quartzite Cordiform Hand Axes

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Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Estimate$2,000 – $3,000

Status

Closed

Eleven Paleolithic Quartzite Cordiform Hand Axes

Mauretania, Middle Paleolithic, Circa 300,000-50,000 Years Ago

Length of longest 7 3/4 inches (19.69 cm).

Property from the Collection of Jonathan Holstein, San Francisco, California

Provenance:

(from left to right, top to bottom)

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inv. no. 02/02-xx-400]

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory number: "02/02-xx-279". With red inventory label]

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory number: "07/02-xx-121". With inventory label: "D271"]

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory number: "02/02-xx-168"]

Art Market, United States, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory number]

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 25 April 2003. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory numbers: "02/02-xx-348" and "348"]

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 25 April 2003. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory number: "02/03-xx-23"]

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed with inventory numbers: "02/02-xx-350" and "350"]

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory number: "02/02-xx-351". With red inventory label]

Art Market, United States, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory number]

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory number: "02/02-xx-355". With red inventory sticker]

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Mr. Coley joined the Antiquities department in 2021 after working as Managing Director in the Ancient Art department at Colnaghi, the world’s oldest commercial art gallery, where he helped to establish the Ancient Art department and launched Colnaghi New York in 2017. Prior to Colnaghi, Mr. Coley was in the Greek and Roman Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Coley holds a B.A. from the University of Miami and an M.A. in Art Market from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and he earned an art-appraisal certificate from New York University.

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