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    15 May 2002

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    • FOUR GOLD GLASS BEAD, CORNELIA
    Lot 481

    FOUR GOLD GLASS BEAD, CORNELIAN AND LAPIS LAZULI BEAD NECKLACES

    1ST MILLENNIUM B.C./A.D.

    Price realised

    GBP 1,410

    Estimate

    GBP 700 - GBP 900

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    FOUR GOLD GLASS BEAD, CORNELIAN AND LAPIS LAZULI BEAD NECKLACES
    1ST MILLENNIUM B.C./A.D.
    Comprising two gold 'sandwich' glass bead necklaces of mainly spherical beads with smaller conjoined beads, iridescent, Hellenistic/Roman period; a lapis and a cornelian bead necklace, each with silver spacers and interspersed with smaller silver beads, the lapis and cornelian beads of varying shapes including melon-shaped beads, polyhedral, spherical, pendant beads, lapis beads decorated with drill holes and cornelian beads with cross-hatching, 31 in. (79 cm.) long max., all restrung (4)

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