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Roman Bronze Folding Knife Handle with Hare and Hound Roman Bronze Folding Knife Handle with Hare and Hound Roman Bronze Folding Knife Handle with Hare and Hound
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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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LOT 0916

Roman Bronze Folding Knife Handle with Hare and Hound

Sold for (Inc. bp): £104

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