Goldweights: Two shields

Ghana, Akan

sold EUR 350

Provenance

Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany

Size

H: 7,5 cm & 4 cm

H: 3.0 inch & 1.6 inch

Description

brass, the bigger shield with handwritten collection number on the back side, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion

von Graffenried, Charlotte, Akan Goldgewichte im Bernischen Historischen Museum, Wabern-Bern 1990, p. 108, pl. 20

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