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LOT 1448
Tudor Period 'Thames' Bronze Working Hawking Whistle
CIRCA 16TH-17TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (2.24 grams, 38 mm).
With ribbed body and suspension loop, narrow fipple. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Cf. 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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