Lot 1323 , A group of stone adze hand tools, three 19th century Papua New Guinea, each labelled New Guinea, collected before 1950,

A group of stone adze hand tools, three 19th century Papua New Guinea, each labelled New Guinea, collected before 1950, the longest of grey-white black speckled stone, 18.5cm, the thinnest of dark grey stone, 18cm and the last of dark green stone, 12cm, the other stone tools unlabelled
Estimate £100-200

Provenance - T. Gerrard & Co Ltd, Pentonville Road, preparators, technicians and modellers of London were involved, amongst other things, in biology, osteology and entomology. E. Gerrard & sons based in Camden, North London (opened the second premises above on Pentonville Road) was a firm of taxidermists and makers of anatomical models, and a dealer in artefacts who sold Pacific Islands collections to the British Museum and other museums.

cf. a similar dark green stone adze in the British Museum accession no. Oc-9796
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc-9796


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Sold for £460