The following items are from our stock of ancient jewelry which we featured in our four Michigan (Ann Arbor, Grosse Pointe, and Birmingham) galleries over the past two decades. In May 2008, we sold the last of the galleries.
C.800 AD. Superior quality and condition.
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1550-1650. Man’s size 8 3/4. Bronze, originally gilt.
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C.500-600 AD. Bronze. Ring size 2 1/4.
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C.500 AD, the period immediately following the fall of the Roman Empire. Retaining Roman characteristic but compromised quality reflecting the cultural upheaval.
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Size 4 1/4. Rounded circular top plate with hatched ground and faint image of a figure.
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C.600-900 AD. Bronze, size 8 1/4”
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C.600-800 AD. Bronze. Good quality with flared shoulders and truncated circular top plate with deep chevron design on a shallow hatched field.
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Early Byzantine period retaining Roman characteristic but compromised quality reflecting the cultural upheaval.
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11th-12th century. Bronze with a narrow band supporting a large scalloped edge oval top plate.
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C. 600-900 AD. Size 6 1/2.
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16th-early 17th century. Size 8 3/4 with band flaring to the bezel formed as two triangles of bosses flanking a central oval.
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16th-early 17th century. Another variation based on the same pattern as J41, executed in smaller detail.
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16th-early 17th century. A further interpretation of the pattern as J41.
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10th-12th century, Germanic. Bronze, originally gilt. Size 7 1/2.
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1550-1650. Large man’s size 10 1/2 .
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1550-1650. Large man’s size 9 with near flat top and angled transition to the band.
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1550-1650. Bronze, originally gilt.
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First century AD. Bronze, size 8 with large oval top supported on near right angle shoulders.
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Characteristic form with near flat top sharply angled with the shoulders.
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Large size 10 1/4 with flattened top circular band and plain top oval.
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C.800-900 AD. Size 5 1/4.
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Tapered bronze band with high oval bezel with linear hatched motif.
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Dating second half of the 19th century. Have a small group, evidently collected by German authorities in the 1930’s and 40’s when the Gypsies were rounded up in Germany and Eastern Europe.
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