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LOT 0636
Romano-British Mortarium Sherd with Makers Mark
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
9 1/2 in. (515 grams, 24 cm).
Creamware fragment of rim with reserved stamp 'AVG[..] / SVL[..]'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound UK, possibly from Colchester, Essex.
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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