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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]
Provenance
Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Literature
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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