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Viking Age Bronze Firesteel with Storks Viking Age Bronze Firesteel with Storks Viking Age Bronze Firesteel with Storks
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LOT 1870

Viking Age Bronze Firesteel with Storks

9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

2 1/2 in. (47 grams, 65 mm).

Openwork bifacial handle from a firesteel formed as two swans with recurved necks flanking a ropework column; slot to underside to accept the ferrous insert. [No Reserve]

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

See Cacciandra, V. & Cesati, A., Fire Steels, Turin, 1996; Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.144, item 1, for type.

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LOT 1870

Viking Age Bronze Firesteel with Storks

Sold for (Inc. bp): £234

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