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PAPUA NEW GUINEA: bailer shell money (497.01g), VF-EF

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Ethnographic Start Price:85.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: bailer shell money (497.01g), VF-EF
SOLD
150.00USD+ (30.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2022 Sep 16 @ 19:38UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA: bailer shell money (497.01g), Opitz p.29 (plate example), made from a single large shell piece (24 x 22cm), attached at the top with string for wearing, considered scarcer than kina shells in the highlands and used to buy pigs and as bride price, a very impressive example! VF-EF, R, ex Charles Opitz Collection. A large bailer shell was worth 2 pigs in the highlands in 1934.