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LOT 1494
Viking Age Silver Thor's Hammer Pendant
9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (7.73 grams, 47 mm high).
Composed of a loop with coiled wire section and twisted neck creating a smaller loop suspending a pendant formed as Thor's hammer, with coiled wire collar and triangular blade stamped with annulets. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Ex Westminster collection, central London, UK.
Literature
Cf. Pentz, P., Verden på et fad: Sølvskatten fra Vølse in Danefæ - Skatte fra den Danske Muld, Københaven, 2010, p.181, fig.2, for a comparable example.
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