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Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,850
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,160
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,860
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,950
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,750
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,680
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,860
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,380
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,700
Lot No. 1494
13
Sold for (Inc. bp): £131
Composed of a loop with coiled wire section and twisted neck creating a smaller loop suspending a pendant formed as Thor's hammer, with coiled wire collar and triangular blade stamped with annulets. 7.73 grams, 47 mm highFair condition.

Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Ex Westminster collection, central London, UK.

Cf. Pentz, P., Verden på et fad: Sølvskatten fra Vølse in Danefæ - Skatte fra den Danske Muld, Københaven, 2010, p.181, fig.2, for a comparable example.

Lot No. 1495
5
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
With central repoussé dome, star motif around with punched annulet trails to the arms. 2.28 grams, 30 mm

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

The side faces with geometric motifs, attachment lug to one face; pommel with facetted body. 21.7 grams, 20 mm

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Lot No. 1497
8
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Retaining its integral suspension loop, and decorated with concentric roundels composed of shallow domes. 9.29 grams, 33 mm

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Retaining attachment rivets; articulate buckle and strap end with zoomorphs in relief. 30.5 grams, 79 mm

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Lot No. 1500
12
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Formed as a hippocampus with s-shaped body, central band of chip-carved zigzags, triangular ear and chevron mouth, crescentic leg beneath the body; three dots to the head; pin-lug and catchplate to the reverse. 5.59 grams, 25.75 mm

Found Brisly, Norfolk, UK.

Cf. example from Mill Hill, Kent, in Brugmann, B., The Role of Continental Artefact-Types in Sixth Century Kentish Chronology, in Hines, J. et al., The Pace of Change, Studies in Early Medieval Chronology, Oxford, 1999, fig.3.4, phase II; similar S-shaped fibulas from Marchélepot, France, in Menghin, W., The Merovingian Period. Europe Without Borders, Berlin, 2007, item VIII.17.17.

Lot No. 1501
2
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Comprising: flat bronze patrix of a hound with billets and zigzag detailing to the body curved foreleg, tail and hindleg; similar patrix of a feline with beaded collar and punched mane detailing, legs extended; mounted on a custom-made presentation stand. 411 grams total, 14 cm high including stand

Ex London gallery, 1990s.
with old labels to the reverse.

Cf. Bonora, G.L. Recipienti Zoomorfi a Carattere Rituale in Bonora, G.L. & Marzatico, F., Ori dei Cavalieri delle Steppe, Milan, 2007, p.232-41.

Patrices were used to create thin sheet-silver or gold appliqués which were used to decorate wooden items, ritual items, clothing, horse-harness and other items.
In relief with angled borders and five pellets to the interior representing the Five Wounds of Christ; remains of pin lug and catchplate to reverse. 23.7 grams, 37 mm

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Lot No. 1503
4
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
The free-running, wedge-shaped pendant displaying repoussé pellets; slender ring with overlapping terminals, each forming a coiled sleeve around the opposite arm. 2.49 grams, 53 mm

Acquired on the EU art market around 2000.
From the collection of a North American gentleman.

Each with a central octofoil pattern and two pairs of opposed bird-headed ribbed arms to the rim, pin-lug and catchplate to the reverse; possibly later gilding. 11.02 grams total, 27-28 mm

Acquired before 1980.
Ex property of a London collector.

Cf. MacGregor, A. et al., A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 58.25, with six heads to the rim.

Motif in openwork, decorative striations to the rectangular border; two mounting lugs to reverse. 3.26 grams, 27 mm

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Displaying a chip-carved motif of four bent animal legs, central garnet cloison, four lobes to the rim with a cabochon garnet; catch and pin-lugs to the reverse; central garnet replaced 8.3 grams, 37 mm

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Cf. Beck, H. et al., Fibel und Fibeltracht, Berlin, 2000, item 135(12), for type.

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