8 - A Bronze Age gold lamina (foil) from a word or scabbard, and five other Bronze Age lamina elements including a large lunate pectoral,

A Bronze Age gold lamina (foil) from a word or scabbard, and five other Bronze Age lamina elements including a large lunate pectoral, circa 1600-1200 B.C. the lamina with rounded tip, broadening towards towards the top, the central panel decorated with triangles forming diamond patterns, interspersed with further triangles, each triangle filled with parallel lines, developing into a herringbone pattern at the broadest section, mounted on a wood stand with perspex cover, 35cm long, 2.7cm max width; the five other Bronze Age lamina elements including a large lunate pectoral, the entire surface decorated with multiple vertical bands of triangles, each filled with finely incised parallel lines, eight vertical lines decorated with stamped linked scrolls and wave decoration acting as dividers, the entire exterior and interior edges similarly decorated, 28.5cm max width, 24.5cm max height; two sub semi-circular sections with similar decoration, each 18.7cm max width and 8.3cm max depth, both with irregular piercings around the edge for attachment; two similar curved sickle-shaped sections with rows of punched decoration composed of loops above circles and rows of punched decoration forming a scroll pattern, 21.3cm x 3cm, all five panels on a wood saddle-shaped mounted, each section behind perspex, (6) Provenance: Property from the Private Collection of Theo Sarmas 1938 -2018. Theo Sarmas was a London businessman who was a passionate collector of Byzantine ceramics and Greek coinage. Princeton University, New Jersey holds the Theo Sarmas collection of medieval Greek coinage.