NEOLITIHIC FLINT DAGGER
TYPE II. SOUTHERN SCANDINAVIA, C. 2400 - 2100 B.C.
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Auction: 13 March 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
knapped grey flint, elongated blade tapering to a point, subtly defined shoulders, evidence of considerable reworking over time, with an early 20th / 19th century collection number reading “18”
Dimensions
19.3cm long
Provenance
Professor Robert Knecht (1926-2023), Birmingham, thence by descent.
Professor Knecht was a historian of 16th-century France. A lecturer and later professor at the University of Birmingham from the late 1950s until his retirement in 1994, he was the author of 20 monographs, and his book The French Renaissance Court (2008) was awarded the Enid McLeod prize by the Franco-British Society in 2009.