Beschreibung:

A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN BRONZE AGE AXES CIRCA 1500-800 B.C. With ink inscribed collection numbers and some with old labels, including four flat axes: one of trapezoidal form, 11.6cm long, '74-1957'; another with flared cutting edge and cast flanges, 16.7cm long; '171- 1957', with faint ink inscribed label on the other side; another with expanded cutting edge, 13.2cm long, '158-1957', with ink inscribed label 'Ireland'; another with curved cutting edge, 15cm long, '169 -957', and a fragmentary flat axe, 6.5cm long '334' and '159-1957'; a socketed axe, 15cm long, '169-1957' on both sides and a label with 'Bateman Collection' with another label with faint ink inscription; two similar socketed axes with side loop, numbered '175-1957' and '178 - 1957'; three palstaves: 17cm long, '166-1957'; another in a modern haft, approximately 17cm long, excluding haft, '204-1955', on the other an side ink inscribed label reading 'Vertrieu ....France'; the third with coppery patina, 14.6cm long '4-1956' and a fragmentary palstave, 9.7cm long, '168-1957' Together with a bronze age spearhead with side loops Circa 1500-1000 B.C. the prominent midrib flanked by angled ribs 7.5cm long, '187-1957' And a hollow fragmentary boat-shaped fibula Italic, circa 7th century B.C. the hollow lozenge-shaped bow missing the foot and catch-plate, the body decorated with incised striations, 10.5cm long, '09-95', accompanied by an old typed label And a gilt bronze fitting with two projections at right angles to the body, 7cm long Provenance: Charterhouse School Museum, largely formed between 1874-1940 Sotheby's, London, The Charterhouse Collection, 5 November 2002, lot 163 (part lot) and 73 (part lot), where purchased by Robert Kime