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LOT 1539
Bronze Age Votive Sword Amulet
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 in. (37.5 grams, 12.3 cm).
A dagger-shaped pendant with pierced pommel, broad ribbed blade. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed in the 1990s.
Acquired from a London gallery.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
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Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
Circa 1000 B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
With flared socket developing to a midrib with scooped ribbing in a leaf-shaped blade; opposed lateral holes to accept attachment pegs, and casting flaw close to the mouth; mounted on a custom-made stand. 92 grams, 14.6 cm (152 grams total, 20.6 cm including stand)
Acquired on the German art market, from Gallery Christian Niederhuber, 2000. European private collection. -
Bronze Age Ceramic Vessel
Middle Bronze Age, circa 1200-800 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Squat jar with burnished surface, low rim to the neck. 450 grams, 14 cm wide
Found Norfolk, UK. Ex Clare Morris, UK, 2012. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Clare Morris. -
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Bronze Age Pair of Spiral Bracelets
Circa 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Each formed of flat-section rod with raised median rib decorated with diagonally hatched bands and tapering finials; one bracelet with incised hatched decoration to the finials, the other with panels of incised herringbone decoration interspersed with panels of hatching. 221 grams total, 75 mm each
Ex private collection, Walton on Thames, UK, 1970s. From the private collection of John Lawton, Surrey, UK.
