contribution #480

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{
  "name": "the silversmith Vannucci",
  "occupation": "of Florence, mid-twentieth century; commissioned in spring 1937 by Dimitrios Karras to produce a copy of the colombina for delivery to the Athens Archaeological Museum; the copy was an excellent piece of workmanship faithful in chevron, inscription, and wing-bend but wrong in weight by three-tenths of a gram"
}