Goldweights: Two shields · Ghana, Akan · ID: 3039397
sold
EUR 350
Provenance
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, GermanySize
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
Comparing literature
von Graffenried, Charlotte, Akan Goldgewichte im Bernischen Historischen Museum, Wabern-Bern 1990, p. 108, pl. 20