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LOT 1704
Pre-Viking Bronze Owl Mount
FINNO-UGRIC, 6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (11.4 grams, 40 mm).
Modelled in the half-round, mount with lugs to the reverse, ropework border; Polomskoy Culture. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
Literature
Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.LX (13).
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