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LOT 0733
Romano-British 'St Albans' Painted Fresco Wall Plaster Fragment Collection
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 - 2 in. (70 grams total, 36-51 mm).
With painted stripe, swirl and other motifs, supplied with old collector's record card 'Roman Wall Plaster / 4 pieces of painted wall plaster. From St. Albans'. [4, No Reserve]
Provenance
Found St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.
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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LOT 0733
Romano-British 'St Albans' Painted Fresco Wall Plaster Fragment Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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