China & Tibet
Lot 1146 SESSION 8 (2.30PM WEDNESDAY 23RD NOV) China & Tibet
Estimate $200
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SOLD $7,000
CHINA, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), late empire period, Guizhou Province small round ingots Cribb LI, Group B, silver as half a sphere of 1.2 ounce (36.25 gs), bank ingot cast at the Guizhou Provincial Bank, 'Gui Zhou Guan Qian Ju' (Guizhou Official Coin Bureausavings bank) framed within a linear rectangle, as a block of three characters, (Cribb 653 [Pl.56] for similar example). Very fine and rare.
Ex James Gardiner Collection.
A similar example was in our sale 98 (lot 2380) and realised $280.
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