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LOT 2057
Viking Inspired Bronze Omega Brooch
MORDVINIAN, 12TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 in. (17 grams, 63 mm).
With pellets and raised borders to the trapezoidal panels. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London, UK, gallery; formerly in a 1980s collection.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
See Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl. XLIV, item 11.
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