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LOT 1826
Viking Age Bronze Fire Steel with Goat
10TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (41 grams, 54 mm).
A bifacial bronze firesteel with iron striking blade, formed as a regardant goat biting its tail; Finno-Ugric type.
Provenance
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, plate LXX, item 19, for type.
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