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LOT 0916
Roman Bronze Folding Knife Handle with Hare and Hound
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 5/8 in. (19.1 grams, 66 mm).
Openwork rectangular panel with reserved hare-and-hound motif, remains of ferrous blade below. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.
Literature
See Bishop, M.C. & Coulston, J.C.N., Roman Military Equipment From the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome, London, 1993, for discussion.
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