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LOT 1322
Viking Age Stamp-Decorated Bronze Bracelet
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (79 grams, 75 mm wide).
With a carinated outer face with stamped annulets and faux ropework above and below raised rib to the equator, transverse grooves to the terminals. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
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