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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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.jpg "Roman Bronze Eros Cradling Goose Applique")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "Assyrian Bronze Relief Fragment")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,160
.jpg "The Tenby Hiberno-Norse Viking Penannular Brooch")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
![English Milled Coins - George VI - 1937 - Cased RM Proof Coronation Gold Set [4]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/203351-s(2).jpg "English Milled Coins - George VI - 1937 - Cased RM Proof Coronation Gold Set [4]")
Comprising a mixed group of silver-coloured metal finger rings of various types with engraved and raised motifs to the hoops and shoulders, with blue, red and green stone inserts bearing stylised animal, human or insect figures. 93 grams total, 26-32 mm
Property of a North London gentleman.
Property of a North London gentleman.
.jpg "Pre-Columbian Late Inca Polychrome Wooden Kero")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Decorated using pigmented resin inlay to depict a frieze of figures and birds within panels created by ribbons radiating from masks, medial band of geometric forms, floral motifs below; cleaned and conserved. 998 grams, 19 cm highFine condition, cleaned and conserved.
Acquired 1960s-1970s.
Jan Pelles / Lyngbye collection.
Senatus Consulto, Denmark, 2010.
Ex private collection of Mr N.J., Leicester, UK.
See Geiger, G., At the Heart of Pre Columbian America, 5 Continents, Milan, 2003, p.216, no. 175, for a kero of similar design.
These early colonial drinking cups display a combination of Spanish influence in the depiction of figures and flowers while retaining the indigenous preference for geometric design.
Acquired 1960s-1970s.
Jan Pelles / Lyngbye collection.
Senatus Consulto, Denmark, 2010.
Ex private collection of Mr N.J., Leicester, UK.
See Geiger, G., At the Heart of Pre Columbian America, 5 Continents, Milan, 2003, p.216, no. 175, for a kero of similar design.
These early colonial drinking cups display a combination of Spanish influence in the depiction of figures and flowers while retaining the indigenous preference for geometric design.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
With rounded butt, waisted neck for tie attachment and lentoid-section cheeks, tapering on both sides towards the cutting edge; old inked collection inventory number to one face: 'R.0500.15.00'. 344 grams, 11.5 cm
Ex private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P. R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Cf. Funkhouser, W.D., Webb, W.S., Ancient Life in Kentucky, A Brief Presentation of the Paleontological Succession in Kentucky Coupled with a Systematic Outline of the Archaeology of the Commonwealth, Berlin, 2020, figs.129-131, for similar artefacts.
The butt end is rounded making this axe also an effective hammer. Axes like these would have made very effective fighting weapons, able to inflict devastating damage to the body with a single blow.
Ex private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P. R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Cf. Funkhouser, W.D., Webb, W.S., Ancient Life in Kentucky, A Brief Presentation of the Paleontological Succession in Kentucky Coupled with a Systematic Outline of the Archaeology of the Commonwealth, Berlin, 2020, figs.129-131, for similar artefacts.
The butt end is rounded making this axe also an effective hammer. Axes like these would have made very effective fighting weapons, able to inflict devastating damage to the body with a single blow.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Lentoid in section with tongue-shaped cheeks, shallow groove to neck and broadly trapezoidal head with rounded butt; numbered collector's id labels applied to one face. 1.1 kg, 18.5 cm
Ex private collection, Mézières-lez-Cléry, France, 1970.
Acquired by inheritance in 2022.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 92.3a and 94.6, for similar.
Ex private collection, Mézières-lez-Cléry, France, 1970.
Acquired by inheritance in 2022.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 92.3a and 94.6, for similar.
Fragment, featuring stylised facial detailing in relief; attachment piercings to the forehead. 159 grams, 12.5 cm
Ex private collection since the 1980s.
With Acreman St antiques auction, Sherborne, UK.
Ex private collection since the 1980s.
With Acreman St antiques auction, Sherborne, UK.
.jpg "Pre-Columbian Chavin Polished Stone Macehead")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
With central circular socket for hafting, four raised lobes to the shoulder with rounded conical knops between; old inked collection inventory number to the lower edge: 'R.0280.15.00'. 403 grams, 87 mmFine condition.
Private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P. R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 1979.206.1212, for a similar example.
Private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P. R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 1979.206.1212, for a similar example.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Composed of a shallow body and a small loop handle to the rim, the upper face with geometric decoration in red and black. 2.7 kg, 39 cm wide
From an old Hampshire, UK, family collection.
From an old Hampshire, UK, family collection.
.jpg "Prehispanic Stone Arrowhead and Implement Collection")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising knapped agate and jasper arrowheads and other implements; most with an old inked collection inventory number. 293 grams total, 20-63 mmFine condition.
Private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P. R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P. R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
The polychrome bowl with tapering sidewall, everted rim and rounded base, decorated with an anthropomorphic animal, likely a feline with large whiskers, its tail and head emerging at opposite sides of the bowl, and a 'mythical' face to either side. 21 grams, 11 cm diameter
Ex private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P.R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Cf. The British Museum, museum number Am1914,0731.12, for a comparable design; cf. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number M.71.73.246, for a comparable example.
Ex private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P.R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Cf. The British Museum, museum number Am1914,0731.12, for a comparable design; cf. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number M.71.73.246, for a comparable example.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Green-glazed ceramic barrel-shaped pot with applied human figure and extending serpent's head stem; sgraffito detailing. 120 grams, 14 cm
From the collection of H.N., Milton Keynes, 1980s-1990s.
From the collection of H.N., Milton Keynes, 1980s-1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Of bulbous form with rounded base, incised decoration to the body. 2.5 kg, 23 cm high
Ex private Sussex, UK, collection; collected in the 1970s.
Ex private Sussex, UK, collection; collected in the 1970s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Wamser, Herausgegeben von Ludwig and Zahlhaus, Gisela, Rom und Byzanz - Archäologische Kostbarkeiten aus Bayern, Munich, 1998; pictorial paperback; fully illustrated. 1.2 kg, 28 x 22 cmNear new condition.
Ex libris a Suffolk gentleman.
Ex libris a Suffolk gentleman.
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