LOT 2710 Saxon Silver Fastener with Face
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8th century AD. A silver hooked tag with ovoid plate decorated with opposed c-scroll volutes outlined with niello inlay; two piercings close to the outer edge form the attachment points; design forming a stylised male face with curly moustache. See Webster, L & Backhouse, J. The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991, p.236, fig.199. 1.11 grams, 23mm (1"). Property of an English gentleman, previously from Hertfordshire in the early 1990s. [No Reserve]
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