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LOT 1356
Saxon and Viking Bronze Artefact Collection
CIRCA 6TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 - 1 1/2 in. (25.4 grams total, 15-39 mm).
Comprising: a bucket pendant; tweezers; fragmentary pin with punch-decorated facetted finial; mount displaying a lion's head; together with other pendants. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
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