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LOT 1789
Bronze Age Knife with Perforated Hilt
CIRCA 1300-800 B.C.
7 3/4 in. (8 in.) (158 grams total, knife: 19.7, 20.2 including stand).
With distinctive scooped blade and perforated hilt, originally hafted; some corrosion in places, end of hilt absent; mounted on custom-made stand with collector's label 'N13821'.
ProvenanceAustrian private collection, acquired in the 1990s on the art market.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00144926.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Bronze Age Child's Coiled Bracelet
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Formed of a single rod turned back on itself and coiled. 12.2 grams, 41 mm
Ex Surrey, UK, collection, 1980s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Bronze Age Ballintober Type Short Sword
1300-800 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,210
Waisted leaf-shaped blade with rounded tip, stepped edges, flared shoulders with holes to accept fixing rivets, flat tang with rivet hole and part of another at the broken end; blade restored; inked legend 'IRELAND / Monaghan'. 335 grams, 37.8 cm
Believed found Monaghan, Ireland. with Christie’s New York, 13 December 1980, no.22 Subsequently Olympia Auctions, 26 June 2024, no.120. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Bronze Age Spectacle Pendant Pair
Late Tumulus-early Urnfield Period, circa 1400-1200 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Formed as two coils of round-section rod with a loop between. 14.2 grams total, 48-49 mm
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.