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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,450
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,050
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Quatrefoil-type with interstitial lobes, central square panel with lion rampant. 4.41 grams, 28 mm
Found Romney Marsh area, 2023.
Property of a Kent gentleman.
Cf. Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, item 209.
Found Romney Marsh area, 2023.
Property of a Kent gentleman.
Cf. Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, item 209.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Hoop with expanded and facetted shoulders, octagonal bezel engraved with three stylised ships over a highly stylised plant motif. 11.12 grams, 24.41 mm overall, 20.25 mm internal diameter (approximate size British U, USA 10, Europe 22.52, Japan 21)
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
Rectangular in plan with openwork design displaying a bird standing right, its head turned upside down, holding a scrolling tendril in its beak; plain reverse plate with one rolled lip and rivets. 13.4 grams, 34 mm
Found Berkshire, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.BERK-700C61.
Found Berkshire, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.BERK-700C61.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
Being a heater-shield form with remains of integral suspension loop; the device an 'argent cross moline gules' showing cross moline (sometimes described as recercelee when the curled ends of the limbs are exaggerated) on a red enamelled field. 4.5 grams, 29 mm
From the Sullivan family collection, UK; acquired since 2003.
The device is associated with several English families but most prominently with members of the Dovedale family (with various spellings) which appears to have originated in Yorkshire or Cheshire from the 12th century AD.
From the Sullivan family collection, UK; acquired since 2003.
The device is associated with several English families but most prominently with members of the Dovedale family (with various spellings) which appears to have originated in Yorkshire or Cheshire from the 12th century AD.
Comprising: a lozengiform fitting with raised foliage and central rose, possibly a junction; remains of a buckle with a rose and slender scrolling ornament to the plate; remains of a ring brooch ornamented with pellets and possible animal heads; openwork plate formed as a head or skull between scrolling foliage, bar below and loop above. 11.6 grams total, 13-20 mm
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising a variety of artefacts: a spur rowel; spindle whorl with linear ornament; spindle whorl with lettering and heart motif; remains of a ring brooch; a mount with dog's head terminal. 105 grams total, 24-53 mm
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
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The oval plate retaining two fixing rivets, articulate round-section head and zoomorphic tongue. 6.5 grams, 26 mm
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Square with a suspension loop to the top edge; recessed heater-shield displaying a rampant lion facing right in relief. 11.05 grams, 45 mm
From the Sullivan family collection, UK; acquired since 2003.
From the Sullivan family collection, UK; acquired since 2003.
With bands and hatching to the shoulders, ellipsoid bezel with scroll motifs. 8.52 grams, 25.20 mm overall, 20.79 mm internal diameter (approximate size British U 1/2, USA 10 1/4, Europe 23.15, Japan 22)
Acquired on the UK art market.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 650, for type.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 650, for type.
Of quatrefoil form bearing a raised cross fleury ornamented with pellets; two decorative circular punches to reverse. 9.35 grams, 26 mm
Found Berkshire, UK.
Found Berkshire, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Offering a variety of types of spindle whorl, including biconical, facetted and plano-convex forms, including examples possibly displaying worn decorative motifs. 495 grams total, 10-18 mm
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
Complete with articulate tongue, chamfered circular body with punched ornament, X-motif and pellets to the tongue. 1.85 grams, 17 mm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
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