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LOT 0912
Romano-British 'Poultry' Samian Ware Sherd Group
1ST CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 - 2 5/8 in. (60 grams total, 58-65 mm).
Two fragments of redware bowl rim, the larger with handwritten label 'Roman / from the Poultry, London Dec.1928' and record card 'Fragment Decorated Samian Bowl. Found: The Poultry, London, Dec. 21. 1928'; the smaller with handwritten label ''Roman / the Poultry / Dec.21.1928'. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Poultry, London, UK, 1928.
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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