Primitive Money
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Lot 2619 Session 8 (2.30pm Thursday) Primitive Money
Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $80
PHILIPPINES, fertility charms in hand carved bronze on necklaces (3); native ear-rings with large wooden leaves attached to copper rings; bronze metal bracelet; smoking pipes (3), two carved in wood and one in bronze with attached trinkets; African beads as money, a group of three from Liberia (West Africa) with central holes for stringing; another Aggri from Tunis, (Chapter IV, Quiggin). Mostly very fine, interesting and some rare. (12)
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