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Collection of bronze brooches. Roman, 1st - 4th...

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Collection of bronze brooches. Roman, 1st - 4th century A.D. Among them two cloverleaf-shaped brooches with hallmark decoration (L 2.5cm, needles missing), a brooch in breakthrough technique (L 3.2cm, needle missing), an axe brooch (L 4.7cm, needle missing), a Pelten brooch (L 2.8cm, needle missing), a brooch with semicircular head plate and five roundels (L 6.3cm, needle missing, Merovingian period, 5th. - 6th century AD), a bow brooch with rectangular foot plate (L 2.7cm, intact), and a silver brooch with decorated bow (L 4.8cm, needle missing). 8 pieces! Ex Gorny & Mosch Auction 272, Munich 2020, lot 706; ex Austrian private collection M.S., since the 1970s.