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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Salaethus, post: 4015578, member: 109856&quot;]Thanks for bumping this thread, it was enjoyable reading through from the beginning. I can add some ancient non coin stuff, here&#039;s one of my favorites. Wish I had better pictures but this dagger along with all my other antiquities are stored over a thousand miles away from where I&#039;m currently living <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[ATTACH=full]1055940[/ATTACH]</p><p>Description:</p><p>An ancient European Bronze Age reworked dagger, dating to approximately 800 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of rare and unusual form, with a long ridged handle, slender blade and prominent central rib. Unusually, this piece appears to have originally been made as a spear head, subsequently broken (possibly in battle), and reworked into a dagger. Beating marks from this process of reworking are still clearly visible.</p><p>A weapon such as this would have been used in battle by the early Celtic peoples and their predecessors, indeed the period to which this artifact dates was characterized by migrations and invasions of warrior led groups across Europe. The late Bronze Age appears to have been a time of widespread warfare and social upheaval, ultimately carried on the back of weapons such as this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Length: 8 ½ inches.</p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance:</p><p>Ex. ArtAncient Ltd, Ex-Collection of Henk Huffener (1923 – 2006), a respected artist, officially honored hero of the Dutch resistance, and successful antiques dealer, with establishments in Surrey and Kensington, England.</p><p>Huffener was born in Utrecht in 1923. One of nine children, he soon became known for his artistic talents, most notably for his still lifes, portraits, and abstractionist works. Huffener, inspired by his father, also became immersed in the world of anti-fascist activism. Come the start of the war, he began traveling the Netherlands, helping Jews escape Nazi-occupied Europe by providing them with forged papers, and hiding them from their persecutors. This incredible bravery and selflessness was documented in The Other Schindlers by Agnes Grunwald-Spier (2010), and Huffener was honoured by Yad Vashem as &#039;Righteous Among the Nations&#039; in 1998. His wartime contributions were also commemorated posthumously in March 2010, when Prime Minister Gordon Brown awarded him the Hero of the Holocaust medal for &quot;the service of humanity.&quot;</p><p>Huffener eventually moved to England in the 1950s, establishing his own antiques business in 1959 in Albury, Surrey. Here, his knowledge and collections grew to encompass antiquities, ethnographic art, glass, paintings and fossils. Also noted for his restoration skills, Huffener was much respected in his field, coming to befriend Herbert Reiser, one of the world&#039;s leading collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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