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LOT 1733
Medieval Bronze Knife Handle Pommel with Bust
1450-1500 A.D.
3/4 in. (8.62 grams, 21 mm).
From a scale knife with a slot to the underside, the finial formed as a female bust with cross-hatched hair. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Sutton Fields, Sutton on the Forest, Yorkshire, UK, in March 2000.
From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
Accompanied by an illustrated record sheet by Jim Halliday dated 7 May 2000.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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