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LOT 1630
Medieval Bronze Ring with Saltire
14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (8.84 grams, 26.60 mm overall, 17.82 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)).
With carinated hoop, rectangular bezel with reserved maltese cross. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex DRG Coins and Antiquities, Essex, UK.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 538, for type.
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