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LOT 1726
Viking Age Decorated Bone Knife Handle
8TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/2 in. (33 grams, 11.5 cm).
Portion of single-edged blade from a knife with attached scales to the handle, each D-shaped in section flaring towards the outer end; incised pattern of whorls, tendrils and hatched discs to the outer end of each. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the European art market since the early 2000s.
From the private Northern Ireland collection of R.M.
Literature
Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.177(2a).
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