LOT 0476 Elaborate Viking Period Silver Sword Scabb…
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10th-11th century AD. A large silver Avar scabbard chape, the sheet body with repoussé linear ornament and punched dots to front of throat and tip; the throat rim with applied cast collar with bands of ornament and central spur rising in the form of ram's heads to both sides and the tip with affixed cast embellishment piece with pellets to edges, scrolls and trefoil central elements with knop to tip. See Fodor, Istvan, The Ancient Hungarians, Budapest, 1996, for background information.118 grams, 22.5cm (9"). Property of a European collector; formerly in an old European collection formed in the 1980s. A video of this lot can be viewed on Timeline Auctions website.
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