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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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.jpg "Hellenistic Gold Earrings with Lapis and Mother of Pearl")
.jpg "Hellenistic Terracotta Head of a Youth")
.jpg "Neo-Assyrian Bronze Horse Trapping with Eagle-Headed God Nisroch and Winged Supernatural Figures")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,450
.jpg "Bronze Age Gold Torc-Shaped Bracelet")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,050
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
The majority bearing initials, including a crowned IHC monogram; blackletter 'B'; a possible cross cercelee within a double roundel and pellet border; together with other motifs and initials. 59 grams total, 27-52 mm
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
.jpg "Medieval Thames Pewter Bifacial Wine Tavern Token")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
With a hatched double-headed eagle to one face and barred capital letter 'A' to the other; pierced in two places, perhaps for use as a button 1.11 grams, 18 mm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
The tapering rectangular body retaining two rivets, terminal formed as a crowned king's head with bifacial detailing. 5.6 grams, 40 mm
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Comprising horse harness elements, knives and other miscellaneous items. 7.2 kg total, 1.7-49.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. similar spur in PAS, YORYM-D21858, dated 1250-1350 A.D.
A rowel spur in this group, undecorated and with deeply curved side arms suggest a 13th-14th century dating. Spurs were not just worn when riding, but more generally as a mark of status and could also be highly decorated.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. similar spur in PAS, YORYM-D21858, dated 1250-1350 A.D.
A rowel spur in this group, undecorated and with deeply curved side arms suggest a 13th-14th century dating. Spurs were not just worn when riding, but more generally as a mark of status and could also be highly decorated.
.jpg "Georgian Silver Seal Matrix with Double-Headed Eagle")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Composed of an openwork stem and oval matrix displaying a crowned double-headed eagle with spread wings to base. 8.91 grams, 22 mm
Found Hampshire, UK.
Found Hampshire, UK.
With carinated hoop, rectangular bezel with reserved maltese cross. 8.84 grams, 26.60 mm overall, 17.82 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)
Ex DRG Coins and Antiquities, Essex, UK.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 538, for type.
Ex DRG Coins and Antiquities, Essex, UK.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 538, for type.
Formed with a spherical lock and D-shaped locking arm with square cross-section; keyhole to one face of the body. 39.5 grams, 47 mm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Cf. The PAS database, record id.KENT-2F53F1, for similar.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Cf. The PAS database, record id.KENT-2F53F1, for similar.
Modelled in the round with semi-naturalistic face and hair detailing and trace remains of gilding; once belonging to a complete figure of Christ. 17.5 grams, 21 mm
Found Fordham, Essex, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.ESS-EFA165.
Found Fordham, Essex, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.ESS-EFA165.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Quatrefoil in shape, each lobe with a six-petalled flower in red enamel; intact loop to the apex 3.97 grams, 33 mm
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Somerset collector, UK, since at least the early 2000s.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Somerset collector, UK, since at least the early 2000s.
Composed of tools, fittings, cleavers, sickles, spurs, rowels and various other miscellaneous artefacts. 5.9 kg total, 15-35.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
See Read, B., Identifying Detector Finds, figs.356-357, pp.62-63, for similar.
The spurs in this group can be identified and chronologically dated due to the multipoint rowels, which are typical of mid-late 15th century A.D. The rapid development of the armour in 15th century did not influence the trend for necks of rowel-spurs to considerably increase in length, a style which persisted well into the first half of 16th century A.D.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
See Read, B., Identifying Detector Finds, figs.356-357, pp.62-63, for similar.
The spurs in this group can be identified and chronologically dated due to the multipoint rowels, which are typical of mid-late 15th century A.D. The rapid development of the armour in 15th century did not influence the trend for necks of rowel-spurs to considerably increase in length, a style which persisted well into the first half of 16th century A.D.
.jpg "Medieval The Rodings Bronze Seal Matrix with Cockerel")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Discoid with central intaglio cockerel in a beaded border,Lombardic script legend '* S' NICOLI . LATIIII . SCNIII'; loop to the reverse. 9.77 grams, 25 mm
Found The Rodings, Essex, UK.
Found The Rodings, Essex, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Shield-shaped with integral suspension loop, bearing a device of 'Or two pales azure, overall a fess gules', or possibly azure, two pales sable, overall a fess gules; much surviving red and blue enamel. 3.72 grams, 25 mm
Found Berkshire, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.BERK-1431E4.
Found Berkshire, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.BERK-1431E4.
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