. Archæology and false antiquities. Figs. 21 and 22. Flint Objects from Volosova, Russia them, and rewarded them with bonbons, I came afterMr, Koznov, and had to give them money. Later, whenstrangers began to visit the station, the price was raised, sothat they sometimes demanded two or three roubles for an axe-hammer head. It was then that certain savants suggested thequestion of the possibiHty of the forger}^ of implements ; butsuch forgeries, if there had been an}^, must have been very is impossible for gamins to fabricate an arrow-point, orany object in worked flint, and all they c
. Archæology and false antiquities. Figs. 21 and 22. Flint Objects from Volosova, Russia them, and rewarded them with bonbons, I came afterMr, Koznov, and had to give them money. Later, whenstrangers began to visit the station, the price was raised, sothat they sometimes demanded two or three roubles for an axe-hammer head. It was then that certain savants suggested thequestion of the possibiHty of the forger}^ of implements ; butsuch forgeries, if there had been an}^, must have been very is impossible for gamins to fabricate an arrow-point, orany object in worked flint, and all they could do was to polishan axe of schist, or to perforate a plaque of this material ; butit is very rare to find plaques and axes of this kind. One could CONTINENTAL FORGERIES 77 also sharpen a bone-point, but this would be easily myself noticed, on one occasion, such a point among theobjects brought to me by a gamin, and, on reproaching thelittle vender, he merely laughed and ran away in haste. So Mr, Koudriavtsev admits t
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