79 (e) Stick-handle(?) of metal, glass, & stone(?)
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Basis a bronze bar, square in section, .2
On this were threaded a series of alternate black & white cylinders of glass & white stone(?) so
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These 1. in diam.
In each of these 3 triangular pieces of inlay, gold on the black & stone (fibrous calcite) on the
white, fastened with a red resinous cementive one on each side & one on top <>.
End cylinder at top (black) had a gold cap at the end: metal core also covered with gold here &
widening to take a cap of some sort. Metal at other end has a hole near end with a gold pin still
in it, and above a second hole, not perforated through. ? attached to what: could not have been
to wood, as nail not big enough.
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