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Carter No.: 235b

Handlist description: Silver stick surmounted by statuette

Card/Transcription No.: 235ab-2


235 (a) & (b)

3. Description (Cont) Below base a separate band 1 wide, overlying the main tubing. Ferrule a separate piece of tube 1.2 long. At end a circular disk .05 thick applied.

(b) Stick covered with silver tubing. Statuette of solid electrum or silver. Attitude as in (a), but figure almost straight. Feet socketed into base. At 16.3 below statue base a join in the tubing. Ferrule of gold 6.2 long. End a circular piece attached.

The sticks were wrapped separately in bandages of fine linen 3.4 wide. Inwoven in this linen lines of white thread. This bandaging was kept in place by bindings of very fine linen cord at intervals, each winding four times round.

Card no. 235ab-2 relating to Carter no. 235b
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