LOT 2696 Viking Firesteel and Die
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11th-12th century AD. A mixed bronze group comprising: a firesteel with bronze openwork handler and iron striking shoe; a flat-section discoid bronze patrix mould for the production of repoussé plates for insertion to applied disc brooches, pattern of five radiating heart-shapes surrounded by a billetted border. See Cacciandra, V. & Cesati, A. Fire Steels, Turin, 1996 for discussion. 30.1 grams total, 34-60mm (1 1/2 - 2 1/2"). Property of a gentleman; acquired in the 1970s. [2]
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