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LOT 1726
Medieval Silver-Gilt Ring Brooch
13TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (2.01 grams, 21 mm).
Retaining an articulate flat-section tongue looped around a narrow inset in the ring; the outer face decorated with radiating triangles over punched pellets. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Buckinghamshire, UK, private collection; formed in the 1980s.
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