Gazette Drouot logo print
Lot n° 173

Set of carved tools including bifaces, some with...

Result :
Not available
Estimate :
Subscribers only

Set of carved tools including bifaces, some with provenance label, presented on a plate lined with red velvet. Flint French prehistory : Mousterian, Chellean, Acheulean, Magdalenian. Lower and Upper Paleolithic. H_6 cm to H_17 cm. L_5 cm to L_10 cm. All the stones, sculptures and archaeology come from the collections of the castle of B. The collection was formed by Georges C.S., scholar born in 1833 and died in 1909. No acquisitions were made after 1909. The family, which is now selling the castle, has owned it since 1938. They had acquired it furnished, with its collections.