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LOT 1472
Viking Age Base Silver Ring with Scroll Cross
10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (2.60 grams, 22.26 mm overall, 17.12 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M 1/2, USA 6 1/4, Europe 13.09, Japan 12)).
With beaded border to the bezel, pounced field and reserved scrolled cruciform motif. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired 1970s.
From the private collection of a Northern Ireland gentleman.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 584, for type.
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