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Ordos SPEARPOINTS - PAIR

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Asian Antiques Start Price:225.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
Ordos SPEARPOINTS - PAIR
Online Auction only, with advance bids accepted at iCollector and at the Gallery. No live bidding
in the Gallery, and tie bids go to the earliest bidder. All proceeds will go 100% to the World Peace Foundation Building Fund of Hadley, MA.
About 3" long and not yet "sharpened". These were a form of Bronze Bullion Money - traded for their metal and later sharpened when a need for them as spearpoints arose. Found around China, but made in the Ordos, these were acquired there and have the typical lightly-patinated surfaces of the very dry burial environment of the region. Eastern Zhou to Tang Period, they were an unusual form of barter money that lasted a long time...as did the Ordos Knives of the same material and originating from the same time and location.