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Lot 8

Lot 8

Six Paleolithic Quartzite Hand Axes

Status:

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Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Estimate$2,000 – $3,000

Status

Closed

Six Paleolithic Quartzite Hand Axes

Sahara, Lower to Middle Paleolithic, Circa 900,000-300,000 Years Ago

Length of longest 7 7/8 inches (20 cm).

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

Provenance:

(from left to right)

Algeria, Lower Paleolithic, Circa 900,000-600,000 Years Ago

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inv. no.12/04-xx-04. Inscribed in black ink: "AF483"]

Sahara, Lower Paleolithic, Circa 900,000-600,000 Years Ago

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory numbers: "12/04-xx-01" and "AF478"]

Algeria, Middle Paleolithic, Circa 300,000 Years Ago

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory number: "10/04-xx-31". With inventory label: "10/04-xx-31: AMD"]

Algeria, Lower Paleolithic, Circa 900,000-600,000 Years Ago

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory numbers: "10/04-xx-10" and "AF482"]

Algeria, Lower Paleolithic, Circa 900,000-600,000 Years Ago

Handaxe Club, Santa Monica, California, 2000s. [Inscribed in black ink with inventory numbers: "12/04-xx-02" and "AF479"]

Algeria, Lower Paleolithic, Circa 900,000-600,000 Years Ago

Art Market, United States, 2000s. [With inventory label: "305"]

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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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