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LOT 1532
Bronze Age Sword Section
CIRCA 1200-800 B.C.
4 3/4 in. (155 grams, 12.2 cm).
Fragment from the blade of a two-edged slashing sword, lentoid in section and parallel sided. [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.
See Trump, B.A.V., The Origin and Development of British Middle Bronze Age Rapiers, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, Vol. XXVIII, 1962, for discussion.
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