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LOT 1474
Saxon Style Silver Clothes Fastener
20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (3.58 grams, 52 mm).
With a heart-shaped body decorated with a scrolling vegetal border, integral loop with ring, hooked bar to the opposite end. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
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