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LOT 1777
Balkan Silver Bracelet Group
3RD CENTURY B.C.
2 1/4 in. (29.8 grams total, 58-59 mm).
Each round in section with tapering ends formed into a tight coil. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London, UK.
Cf. Rustoiu, A., Ferencz, I.V., ‘Late Iron Age in Transylvania (Romania): Material Culture and practices as markers of communal identities’ in Various, Ancient Thrace: myth and reality, The proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Thracology Kazanlak, September 3-7, 2017, Sofia, 2022, pp.303-308, fig.2,2.4, for bracelets in similar style found on human skeletons in Transylvania.
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LOT 1777
Balkan Silver Bracelet Group
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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British Celtic Enamelled Bronze Terret Ring Section
Iron Age, 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Curved in profile and tapering, round in section with complex intersecting curved flanges; panels of hatched and pointillé detailing, recessed roundels with red enamel fill. 54.9 grams, 68 mm
Found UK. From the collection of a Bedfordshire, UK, lady. -
Celtic Bronze Cosmetic Grinder
Iron Age, 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a slender round-section grinder with a loop handle. 4.06 grams, 37 mm
From the private collection of the late collection of Mr M., Waterlooville, Hampshire, UK, formed from the late 1980s to early 1990s. -
Celtic Bronze Cosmetic Woad Grinder Set
Iron Age, 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 4 | Current Bid: £25
Comprising a scaphoid mortar with thick loop finial; separate grinder with hooked point and ring finial. 20.3 grams total, 60-61 mm
From the private collection of Mr Brian Edwards, New Malden, Surrey, UK, formed from the late 1970s-early 1980s; thence by descent.
