Container for gold dust · Ghana · ID: 3033293
Vendu
80 €
Provenance
Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, GermanyHarald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1983)
Description
brass, dark patina, cylindrical form, decorated with punched ornaments, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion;
until the beginning of the last century gold dust was the most common currency of the country. At every buying or disposal the gold dust had to be weighted, for this purpose natural weights like seeds, shells or bones were used, as well as metal weights, nowadays called “gold weights”.
L’objet Container for gold dust avec l’ID d’objet 3033293 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 70th tribal art auction dans 8 septembre 2012 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 125 a atteint un prix de vente de 80 €.
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