Auction Highlights
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Etruscan Painted Terracotta Architectural Cornice
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
A fragment of amorphous form, decorated in relief with scrolling tendrils and anthemion, painted egg-and-dart ornament above, surmounted by moulded bands and a frieze of meander and chequerboard panels; remains of red and black painted pigment. -
Roman Bronze Eros Cradling Goose Applique
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,950
Formed as the bust of Eros looking upwards, stub wings to his shoulders, holding a goose to his chest; conical socket above each wing; eyes with silver inserts; old collector's label '1994 51.75' to the reverse; mounted on a custom-made stand; likely a socket base. -
Roman Silver-Gilt Military Buckle for an Elite Imperial Officer
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
Comprising a rectangular plate, richly decorated with embossed laurel leaves in a grid, framed with raised bosses, the buckle loop comprising opposing dragons with open mouths, holding a spherical tongue-rest, another pair of smaller dragon heads to base, the tongue with a smaller pair of punch-decorated dragon heads. -
South Arabian Bronze Bowl with Mythical Animals
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,850
Hemispherical in form, repoussé interior displaying graduated concentric registers of stylised and mythical animals within tessellating cartouches; a low relief mesomphalos decorated with rosette at centre; geometric ornament around the rim. -
Assyrian Bronze Relief Fragment
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
Displaying a corrugated rim above and below; two advancing soldiers, each striding forwards over the headless body of a dead enemy, carrying a severed head in each hand; the soldiers shown bearded and each wearing a pointed and segmented helmet with a recess to accommodate the ears, a cuirass and thigh-length tunic, with a bow over one shoulder and a sword slung from a waist belt; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Bronze Age Gold Bracelet with Torc-Shaped Terminals
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,440
Of penannular form with expanded sections at the centre and to both shoulders. -
'The Oving' Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,160
Comprising a rectangular headplate with two panels of chip-carved Style I ornament, flanking a beast-head with triangular muzzle and two pellet eyes, raised three-sided frame and outer band of pellets above beast-heads with lentoid eyes; the shallow bow with raised median rib, flanges to the edges and punched pellet detailing; footplate with beast-head between curved pellet lines, pierced horse-head lappets, lozengiform central panel with knot of Style I limbs; two lateral discs, one pierced to accept a stud and the other with a domed stud in place; the finial a disc with human mask inverted; pin-lug and part of catch to the reverse. -
Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
Displaying chased panels populated with Style I zoomorphs and geometric forms, borders of annulets, raised masks to the upper corners of the headplate; applied discoid boss to bow decorated with a rosette, addorsed beast heads below; extensive remains of gilding; pin lug and catchplate to reverse and remains of ancient repair, lower part absent. -
'The Tenby' Hiberno-Norse Viking Penannular Brooch
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640
Comprising a round-section crescent with flared ends terminating in two curved spatulate flat panels, each with a ropework border surrounding a two-band knotwork motif; cleaned and conserved. -
Medieval Oil Painting of Sorrowful Virgin
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
The weeping Virgin with her head bowed to the left and hands raised to her chest on a dotted gilt background, an expression of pain on her delicately formed face; wearing a white veil and a black long-sleeved robe, the veil arranged as a headdress and covering her hair; on wood and mounted in a later carved wooden architectural frame. -
Medieval Stained Glass Panel With Saint Martin on Horseback
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
Shown beneath an arcade, offering his cloak on the end of his sword to the beggar at his feet; polychrome detailing; repaired with lead cames and held in a wooden frame. -
Medieval Stained Glass Panel with The Virgin and Child
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,860
Composed from irregular painted panels bearing mainly foliage designs and figural elements; Mary crowned and enthroned with infant Jesus on her knee, in a lobed vesica-shaped panel held with lead cames; mounted in a wooden frame with modern replacements. -
Medieval Stone Column Capital with Lion and Human Face
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,950
Carved in the half-round with a frieze composed of interlaced foliage with two rows of acanthus leaves and foliage scrolls, framing a lion's head on one side and a human head on the other, remains of lion's mane to the third; drilled holes to the raised surfaces and sockets for the insertion of decorative stones. -
'The Kirkleavington' Medieval Bronze Inscribed Purse Frame
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640
The bar with central D-shaped block pierced vertically by a stud surmounted by the suspension loop, with four pierced flanges to the underside; the frame in two sections, the larger a U-shaped rod with pivot for the bar, the smaller pivoting within the inner face, both pierced on the inner face; the block inscribed to one face with capital S and to the other with intersecting Vs; the bar inscribed to one face in capitals 'A DOMINI TECVM' and to the other in coarsely incised capitals 'AVEMARIA G[R]ACIAPLE[NA]'; the smaller rod inscribed in capitals 'CREATOREN CELI ET TERRE ET IN [IES]VN'; the larger inscribed with a band of scrolled decoration and the text in Lombardic capitals 'SOLI DEO HONOR ET GLORIA'; the accompanying letter discusses the texts (1) Ave Maria G[r]acia ple[n]a Dominus Tecum 'Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord [is] with thee'; (2) Soli Deo Honor et Gloria 'Honour and glory to God alone'; (3) Creatorem celi et terrae et inferum 'creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus'. The intersecting Vs may form a monogram for A[ve] M[aria]; the 1847 letter describes the findspot as 'found at Kirkleavington near Yarm in the sill of a brook' in the North Riding of Yorkshire. -
'The Roxwell' Medieval Gold Signet Ring of 'King's Serjeant William Skrene'
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Gold hoop and discoid bezel with incuse ropework border; incuse image of a bird of prey perching with wings spread and head turned; blackletter incuse and reversed inscription in an arc above the bird's head and pinions '·al : for : ye : best ·' (all for the best); repair to hoop. -
Medieval Silver 'Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland' Royal Hawking Vervel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,750
Or a leg ring inscribed '+Earle of Rutland' in derivative black letter script, for a female merlin or sparrow hawk (due to the youth of Edmund Plantagenet who died aged 17); the ring with a convex interior face. -
Post Medieval Gold Memento Mori Ring with Inscribed Posy 'In God Alone Wee Two Are One'
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,680
Displaying large flower heads, foliage and a skull to the outer face, enhanced with black enamelling; interior inscribed in a cursive script 'In god alone wee two are one', together with possible maker's stamps 'D' and 'F' in two rectangular cartouches. -
Heavy Post Medieval Gold 'Love Is The Bond Of Pease' Posy Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,860
Composed of a gently carinated hoop, the interior inscribed in cursive script 'Love is the bond of pease'. -
Post Medieval Gold 'Live Life to the Full' Decorated Posy Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,380
Composed of a decoratively notched hoop divided into chased rhomboidal panels displaying foliate tendrils and horizontal hatching alternately; the interior inscribed in Roman capitals with the Latin phrase: 'x x x x VIVE x VT x VIVAS'. -
English Milled Coins - George VI - 1937 - Cased RM Proof Coronation Gold Set [4]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,700
Set comprising gold five pounds, two pounds, sovereign and half sovereign. Obvs: profile bust with GEORGIVS VI D G BR OMN REX F D IND IMP legends. Revs: St George and dragon; date in exergue; with original Royal Mint hinged red leatherette case of issue.
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Norman Coins - Henry I - London / Algar - Star in Lozenge Fleury AR Penny 1100-1135 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
BMC type xiii. Obv: profile bust with sceptre and +HENRICVS R legend. Rev: lozenge with incurved sides with star at centre, fleurs at cusps and annulet trefoils in angles with +ALGAR:ON:LVNDE: legend for the moneyer Algar at London mint. 1.27 grams.
Very fine. Scarce.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Accompanied by a coin ticket. -
English Medieval Coins - Richard I - Canterbury / Roberd - Short Cross Penny 1189-1194 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Class 3ab2. Obv: facing bust with sceptre and HENRICVS REX legend. Rev: short voided cross and quatrefoils with +ROBER•ON•CANT legend for the moneyer Roberd at Canterbury mint. 1.01 grams.
Fine. Scarce.
Found Winterbourne, Dorset, UK, 2007 (UKDFD reference 9431). Acquired TimeLine Auctions, 2015, lot 2408. The Kusmirek Collection, UK. Accompanied by print of UKDFD record. -
English Medieval Coins - John - London / Ilger - Short Cross Penny 1204 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Class 5b1. Obv: facing bust with sceptre and HENRICVS REX legend. Rev: short voided cross and quatrefoils with +ILGER•ON•LVNDE legend for the moneyer Ilger at London mint. 1.28 grams.
Good fine; straightened.
The Kusmirek Collection, UK. -
English Medieval Coins - Henry III - London / Nicole - Long Cross Penny 12th-13th century A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Class 5b2. Obv: facing bust with sceptre and HENRICVS REX Iegend. Rev: voided long cross and pellets dividing NIC / OLE / ONL / VND legend for the moneyer Nicole at London mint. 1.48 grams.
Good very fine.
Ex Alfa Numismatics Sale 12, lot 63 (with lot printout and ticket). Property of a Harrow, UK gentleman. -
English Medieval Coins - Edward I - Berwick upon Tweed - Long Cross Penny 1300-1310 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Class 4b. Obv: facing bust with pellet on breast and EDWA R ANGL DNS HYB legend. Rev: long cross and pellets dividing VILL ABE REV VICI legend for Berwick upon Tweed mint. 1.41 grams.
Very fine.
Acquired Thomas Mawer & Golding sale. Property of a Kent gentleman. -
English Medieval Coins - Edward III - London - Pre Treaty Groat 1356 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Pre Treaty, series F. Obv: facing bust within tressure with EDWARD D G REX ANGL Z FRANC D HYB legend and 'crown' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEV and CIVITAS LONDON legends for London mint. 4.70 grams.
Near very fine.
Found Romney Marsh area, Kent, UK. Property of a Kent collector. -
British Medieval Coins - Henry IV to Henry VI - France - Hardi d'Argent 1399-1461 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Obv: half-length figure of king facing with pellet above crown and ENRIC R ANGLIE legend. Rev: long cross with alternating lis-and-pellet and lions in angles dividing FRA CIE DNS AQI legend. 1.09 grams.
Good fine.
Found Romney Marsh area, 2023. Property of a Kent gentleman. -
English Medieval Coins - Henry VI - Calais - Rosette Mascle Groat 1430-1431 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Pinecone-mascle issue. Obv: facing bust within tressure with HENRICDI GRA REX ANGL legend with rosette stops. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM and VIL[mascle]LA CALISIE[rosette] legends for Calais mint. 3.42 grams.
Near very fine.
The Kusmirek Collection, UK. -
English Medieval Coins - Edward IV - London - Mule First Reign Groat 1465-1466 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
First reign, light coinage. Obv: facing bust with quatrefoils at neck within tressure with EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRAN legend and 'sun' mintmark (used 1465-1466). Rev: long cross and pellets with extra pellet in third quadrant and POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM and CIVITAS LONDON legends for London mint with 'rose' mintmark (used 1464-1465). 2.95 grams.
Good very fine; the muled mintmarks rare.
Found Romney Marsh area, Kent, UK. Property of a Kent collector. -
English Medieval Coins - Edward IV - London - Groat 1471-1472 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Second reign. Obv: facing bust within tressure with EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC legend with 'annulet' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEV and CIVITAS LONDON legends for London mint. 2.84 grams.
Near very fine.
Found near Cheddar, Somerset, 2000's. Property of a Skegness gentleman. -
English Tudor Coins - Edward VI (Henry VIII) - Canterbury - Posthumous Halfgroat 1547-1551 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Obv: three-quarter facing bust with HENRIC 8 D G ANG FRA Z HIB REX legend with no mintmark. Rev: long cross over arms dividing CIVI TAS CAN TOR legend for Canterbury mint. 0.99 grams.
Good fine.
The Kusmirek Collection, UK. -
English Tudor Coins - Mary - Groat 1553-1554 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Obv: profile bust with MARIA D G ANG FRA Z HIB REGI legend and 'pomegranate' mintmark. Rev: long cross over arms with VERITAS TEMPORIS FILIA legend. 1.97 grams.
Very fine.
Found near Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, 2000's. Property of a Skegness gentleman.