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LOT 1392
Byzantine Decorated Bronze Archer's Thumb Ring
5TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (3.72 grams, 24.34 mm overall, 16.19 x 13.95 mm internal diameter (approximate size British F 1/2, USA 3, Europe 4.3, Japan 4)).
Circular in section with triangular flange to one edge, incised ring-and-dot markings. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a private Tyneside collection, formed since the early 2000s.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, items 545, 546, for type.
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