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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MAX WILLBORG (1933-2001) Max was a well-known figure in the London salerooms over the last twenty years although few, perhaps, knew of his early life. Born in Stockholm, he ran away to Spain at the age of 15, learning Spanish and moving to Morocco where he was employed as a private zoo-keeper by a local dignitary in the Spanish Sultanate. A few years later he returned to the University of Barcelona to study taxidermy. After returning to Sweden to complete his compulsory military service as a Spanish/Swedish interpreter, and finding himself without any academic qualifications, he was compelled to support his family as a snake-charmer, morgue attendant and apprentice goldsmith. However, as taxidermists were in short supply, he set up the Stockholm Biological Laboratory with two colleagues, his work including fossil and gorilla cranium hunting in the tropical jungles of Africa. This was followed by a move to modern day Harare, Zimbabwe, to become curator of the museum's fossil collection, and led to his discovery of a new dinosaur skeleton. When Max returned from Africa he set up an antiquities' gallery in Stockholm and then in London with a partner. Five years ago he moved to Ireland and there found a welcome peace among its people.

A NORDIC 'BOAT'-SHAPED STONE AXE-HEAD

2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

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A NORDIC 'BOAT'-SHAPED STONE AXE-HEAD
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
Of speckled greyish-green and yellow colour, with raised 'prow' at one end, 7½ in. (19.2 cm.) long; another Nordic brown stone 'boat'-shaped axe-head with rounded butt and convex sides, 2nd millennium B.C., 5 in. (12.6 cm.) long; and a flaked flint arrowhead, Neolithic, 4th millennium B.C., 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long (3)

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