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LOT 2398
Papuan Scorpion Necklace
20TH CENTURY A.D.
23 5/8 in. (70 grams, 60 cm long).
With barrel-shaped glass beads, centrepiece a bronze mode scorpion. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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