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LOT 0575
Roman 'Essex' Bronze Hare Brooch
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (2.89 grams, 21 mm).
Bronze plate brooch in the form of a hare with remains of enamel stripes to the body; pin-lugs and catch to the reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Essex, UK, in the 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Hattatt, R., Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, item 1192.
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