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LOT 1396
Byzantine Decorated Bronze Archer's Thumb Ring
5TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (7.57 grams, 35.78 mm overall, 24.38 x 21.54 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Y, USA 12, Europe 27.51, Japan 26)).
With triangular flange extension. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a private Tyneside collection, formed since the early 2000s.
LiteratureCf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, items 545, 546, for type.
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