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TWO MINIATURE BRASS GOLD WEIGHTS OF SHIELDS 18th/19th Century

Akan, Ghana.L:34 MM. £230

Two Brass Gold Weights of Shields. 19th Century. Akan Culture, Ghana

'Shield gold weights were on of the earliest figurative subjects to emerge with its useful capacity for bearing, in martial mode, the insignia of state and chiefdom ...' Reference p.107 Tom Phillips African Gold Weights.

These two examples would date to the 18th/19th Century, each cast with handles at their back.

Ex Private Collection Seward Kennedy, London

L: 34 mm each

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