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LOT 0282
Bronze Age British Copper-Alloy Rivetted Dagger
CIRCA 13TH CENTURY B.C.
5 7/8 in. (87 grams, 15 cm).
A rapier or dirk blade; the blade roughly leaf-shaped with raised midrib to both faces, flat butt with two rivet holes, one retaining a rivet.
Provenance
From an old South Coast, UK, collection.
Ex Alan Cherry, Bournemouth, UK.
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