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LOT 1886
Tudor Period Bronze Ring with Horse and Rider
CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (7.85 grams, 25.07 mm overall, 20.78 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T, USA 9 1/2, Europe 21.26, Japan 20)).
With hatched panels to the shoulders, plaque with intaglio rider on advancing horse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s.
From the private collection of a Northern Ireland gentleman.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 583.
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