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Lot 189

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A large Eastern Mediterranean glass eye bead necklace
Circa 6th-2nd Century B.C.
Composed of one hundred and four largely Phoenician globular beads, in various shapes, sizes and colours, including dark and light blue, yellow, turquoise, red, white and green, with blue 'eyes', strung on wire, 17mm diam of largest bead; 29ins (73.6cm) length of string (104)

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UK private collection, formed in the 1960s-80s.

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