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LOT 1532
Bronze Age Copper Flataxe Group
CIRCA 2000-1500 B.C.
2 - 2 3/8 in. (127 grams total, 53-59 mm).
Each with a square butt and flared cutting edge. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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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Bronze Age and Later Metal Artefact Group
2nd millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £39
Including cruciform and other brooch fragments, pots and other items. 473 grams total, 14-51 mm
Found UK. Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013. -
Group of Antiquities and Other Objects
2nd millennium B.C.-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Comprising a Middle Bronze Age Cypriot vessel circa 2000-1600 B.C.; a Bronze Age two-handled vessel from the Holy Land; a votive mirror frame; a bronze statuette of Victory, and other items; some items after the antique. 2 kg total, 1.9-12 cm
The Cypriot pot ex Leto Severis collection; the fragmentary pot ex Donald Simmonds collection; the bronze of Victory ex Michaelides collection. with Roseberys, London, 26 October 2021, the majority of no.13. Accompanied by a copy of the Roseberys catalogue listing. -
Extremely Large Bronze Age Pin with Knop Finial
Central Europe, circa 8th century B.C.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
Round-section shank with bulb to the upper end with incised chevrons and ribbing, narrow neck, biconvex knop finial with median hatched band. 205 grams, 83 cm
Acquired on the Austrian art market, 2000. European private collection.