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LOT 1927
Medieval Silver-Gilt Annular Brooch
CIRCA 13TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (7.49 grams, 32 mm).
With billeted inner and outer rims and D-section central panel decorated with punched-point wreath detail, the ring waisted to accommodate a flat-section triangular tongue. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Horton collection; previously in a Buckinghamshire, UK, collection since the 1980s.
Private collection, Suffolk, UK.
Cf. Hattatt, R., Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, item 1337.
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