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LOT 0531
Egyptian Bead Collection
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/64 in. (19 grams total, beads: 2 mm).
Textile fragment with annular beads of varying colours. [No Reserve]
Provenance
with Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
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