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LOT 2037
Indo-Persian Artefact Group
20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 - 5 3/8 in. (182 grams total, 6.5-13.6 cm).
Including a broad, crescentic, flat axehead with bifacial silver inlay, and stylised figure of a horned animal. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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