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LOT 1940
Luristan Bronze Tanged Spearhead
14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
12 in. (275 grams, 30.4 cm).
Large leaf-shaped blade with a narrow midrib and a rectangular-section tang with bent finial.
ProvenanceEx Abelita collection, 1990s.
LiteratureSee Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s.cat.270, for type.
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LOT 1940
Luristan Bronze Tanged Spearhead
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£50 (EUR 58; USD 68) +BP*
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Opening Bid: £90
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Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
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Western Asiatic Bronze Macehead
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £83
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Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s. -
Mahdi Arm Dagger with Sheath
Sudan, late 19th-early 20th century A.D.Estimate: £70 - 90 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
