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LOT 1384
Viking Gilt Bronze Stirrup Mount with Stylised Dragons
10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (17.7 grams, 42 mm).
Together with a palmette outline to one face, opposed beasts within the ornament; punched pellet texturing and pierced in several places for attachment. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1990s.
Ex property of a German collector.
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