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LOT 1923
Tudor Period Bronze Bird-Headed Hawking Whistle
16TH-17TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (53 grams, 58 mm).
With stylised detailing to the crescentic extension, flat-section handle below. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
LiteratureCf. Leahy, K. and Lewis, M., The British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Identified: An illustrated guide to metal detecting and archaeological finds, Essex, 2018, p.350, item LVPL-8E9B4F, for a similar object date 1550-1650, (NB. the same object has not been updated on the PAS database, so is still dated 1700-1900); cf. The Portable Antiquities Scheme Database, id. NMS-2201BE for similar, dated 1700-1900 AD.
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