Bronze age spear head.
My latest purchase, feeling withdrawal symptoms from near on a year with no fairs or markets I once again bought online.....
Frankly I was not too sure about this one because there are so damn many "bronzes" coming out of China, and it was very cheap for what it is supposed to be, probably because other people had the same idea.
I think it's a real 'un, the Chinese replicate Chinese forms and examples and this isn't one of those. Chinese fakes tend to have a rounded "sucked sweet (candy)" look to them, and on this the surviving edges and angles are sharp, way too sharp for just a casting, and I have seen this form before in museums. So here it is!
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