Lot 5
5
A NORDIC FLINT DAGGER
PROPERTY OF A NEW ENGLAND PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A NORDIC FLINT DAGGER

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2000-1700 B.C.

Details
A NORDIC FLINT DAGGER
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2000-1700 B.C.
Gray in color, with an elongated leaf-shaped blade convex on both sides, with sharp edges, the shoulders sloping to the long handle shaft, triangular in section, terminating in a fish-tailed butt
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, U.S., circa 1995.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example see no. 505, p. 121 in Glob, Danish Antiquities: Late Stone Age, vol. II; and no. 4.220, p. 80 in MacGregor, Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green.

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