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LOT 1576
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Artefact Group
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 - 2 1/2 in. (8.69 grams total, 30-63 mm).
Comprising: small-long brooch with knop finials; fragment of hair-pin terminal with scroll ornament. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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