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LOT 0665
Roman Redware Dish
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/2 in. (87 grams, 11.5 cm wide).
Composed of a tapering sidewall and old blue and white collector's note with handwritten identification notes dating the piece to found(?) in 1923. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceWith old label attached dated 1923.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.
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