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LOT 2104

Tudor 'Thames' Gilt Bronze Clothes Pin

16TH CENTURY A.D.

3 1/2 in. (3.98 grams, 88 mm).

A clothes or veil pin with a decorative flattened wire formed in 'wavy' pattern, secured by tightly coiled wire, a pair of decorative beads. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Ex Graham Slater (1924-2024) collection, Cambridge, UK; his collection assembled since the 1980s.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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LOT 2104

Tudor 'Thames' Gilt Bronze Clothes Pin

Sold for (Inc. bp): £46

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