Gold weight: crab claw

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Lot 381

76th tribal art auction

Gold weight: crab claw

Ghana, Akan

sold EUR 550

Provenance

Jürgen & Gisela Büse, Rheinbreitbach, Germany (collected in situ, 1973-75)

Size

L: 5,3 cm

L: 2.1 inch

Description

brass, cast from nature

Comparing literature

Phillips, Tom, African Goldweights, London 2010, p. 47

Publications

Büse, J.E., Akan-Goldgewichte: Eine Kultur in Bronze, in: Sammler-Journal 2 (1979), p. 81

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