Details
LOT 4479
Hardstone Weight of Uncertain Standard. 1st millennium BC.
Stone weight in shape of a cylinder. Condition as seen.(6.09gr, 15mm.).
Provenance
From the private collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999, thence by descent.
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