5th-6th century AD. A silver-gilt plate brooch mounted on an iron carrier plate with pin-lugs and catch to the reverse; the octofoil facing plate with beaded wire rim, applied beaded wire scrolls and granules, four radiating triangular cells and a central lozengiform cell each set with a garnet cloison. Cf. Adams, N., Bright Lights in the Dark Ages. The Thaw Collection of Early Medieval Ornaments, New York, 2014, item 4.21, for type; Beck, H. et al., Fibel und Fibeltracht, Berlin, 2000, fig.169(2); Heynowski, R., Bestimmungsbuch Archaeologie: Fibeln, Munich, 2012, item 3.26.3.9.19 grams, 29mm (1"). From an important private Dutch collection; formerly in the collection of Dr. Hans-Ulrich Haedeke (1928-2017), author of ‘Schmuck Aus Drei Jahrtausenden’ and who became the director of the Museum of Klingenmuseum in Solingen, Germany, in 1968; the collection was formed in the early 1960s; accompanied by an independent specialist report and valuation by graduate gemmologist and jewellery expert Anna Rogers, GIA GG, BA, Gem-A, ref. no.169956/07/12/2020; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10456-169956.