10th century AD. A brooch and necklace assemblageprising: a matched pair of bronze tortoise brooches, each a domed and slightly keeled body with stepped flange rim, dense pattern of low-relief Borre Style moulded detail including facing figures with pellet eyes; transverse mounting bar and catch to the reverse with loop for attachment of the swag of beads; six restrung swags of glass and other beads of barrel-shaped, fiform, oblate and other types attached to two openwork D-shaped plaques with incised interlace ornament, the lower swag with a seven crescent-shaped pendants with linear ornament. Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987 pl.X, XIII, LVIII. 387 grams total, brooches: 79-82mm (3 1/4"). Acquired 1971-1972. From the collection of the vendor's father. Property of a London, UK, collector. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate number no.11106-184529. [3]