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The industrial arts of Scandinavia in the pagan time (1883)

Hildebrand, Hans, 1842-1913 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman & Hall · leaf 124

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tant types of thisinteresting series. In Fig. 91 is represented an arm-ring, found in Central Swedentogether with 137 Swedish coins of King Olof Skotkonung, andmany other coins from England, Germany, &c. It is com-posed of loosely-twisted silver rings, the extremities of whichare hammered… … Figs. 92, 93.—Fragments of twisted silver rings. Scandinavia. The loose twisting of this ring is not so common as a more solidand closer knotting here represented by Figs. 92 and 93, one takenfrom a girdle, the other from a neck-ring. Both are composed ofpairs of twisted wires, in the one (Fig. 93)…

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