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Akan Antelope Gold Weight Ex Sotheby's 1981, Exhibited

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Akan Gold Weight: African Art Akan Gold Weight from Ghana. The dimension is 1.5 inches high x 2.5 inches wide. The shipping cost for domestic is 15.00 flat rate shipping within the Continental US including handling, pa

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Akan Gold Weight: African Art Akan Gold Weight from Ghana. The dimension is 3 inches high x 1.5 inches wide. The shipping cost for domestic is 15.00 flat rate shipping within the Continental US including handling, pack

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Ashanti Gold Weight Man Killing a Leopard Ex Engelman: A very fine antique Ashanti Gold weight bronze sculpture featuring the image of a highly stylized man shown killing a leopard. Ashanti peoples, Ghana, Africa. The sculpture measures 2.75 inches on its

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Akan Antelope Gold Weight Ex Sotheby's 1981, Exhibited

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A fine Antelope Bronze gold weight, cast in the lost wax method and used as a scale weight for selling Gold dust by the Ashanti or Akan peoples, Ghana, Africa. The weight measures 2.5 x 1.5 inches ( 2.5 inches tall on custom stand) Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 1981, Lot 194, Exhibitions: Asante Gold weights, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, February-April 1988. also Ex Newman collection, New Jersey, Ex Dr. Brian Healy estate, New York.

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Akan Antelope Gold Weight Ex Sotheby's 1981, Exhibited

Name: Akan Antelope Gold Weight Ex Sotheby's 1981, Exhibited
SKU: 101975914
Price: 500 USD
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