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LOT 1916
Georgian Bronze Horse Mount
19TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (52 grams, 53 mm).
Discoid in plan with chamfered rim, tondo with profile horse-head; two studs to reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex DRG Coins and Antiquities, Bishops Stortford, Essex, UK.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
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