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Lot 217

An Anonymous, probably Umayyad, half-fals glass weight
Egypt

23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£700 - £1,000

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An Anonymous, probably Umayyad, half-fals glass weight
Egypt

of pale green colour
22mm. diam., 2gr.

Footnotes

Provenance: Sotheby's, 1980s.

Two line inscription:
nisf/ fals
"half-/ fals"

According to a note by A.H Morton "One or two similar in the Kuwait Collection", and two in a large mixed lot (Sotheby's 24-25 April 1997, Lot 618). These weights with a denomination but no number of qirat or kharruba are rare. This weight corresponds roughly to a 10 qirat weight. The weight of an unpublished anonym full fals weight of the same "style" is 3.11gr.(Strasbourg)

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