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LOT 1674

Sold for (Inc. bp): £234

SCANDINAVIAN VIKING IRON FIRE STEEL WITH BRONZE HANDLE WITH HORSES AND RIDERS
9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/4 in. (35 grams, 69 mm).

Openwork handle formed as stylised addorsed horses with riders, loop above conjoined heads.

PROVENANCE:
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
See Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.144, item 1.

CONDITION
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