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LOT 0735
Romano-British 'Moorgate' Samian Ware Sherd Group
1ST CENTURY A.D.
2 - 4 in. (115 grams total, 4.9-10 cm).
Two fragments of burnished ceramic bowl, the larger with label reading 'Roman Samian / Moorgate Court / London / March 1928'; the smaller ''Roman Samian / from Moorgate St. London / Jan. 1930'. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Moorgate, London, UK, 1928-1930.
From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK.
He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.
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