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LOT 1613
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Moustache Type Dagger Pommel
2ND CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (19.8 grams, 39 mm).
Comprising a swollen body tapering towards the pointed terminals; the centre of the body with a circumferential recess; decorated with alternating ridges and grooves. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, collector.
From his private collection since the 1970s; thence by descent circa 2000.
Ex private collection of a Bedfordshire gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Footnotes
This type of pommel is called a 'moustache pommel', so named because of its shape, a sort of comedic, droopy moustache.
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