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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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.jpg "Egyptian Relief with List of Offerings")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "Eastern Roman Bust of the Daughter of Aqima")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Italic Bronze Triple-Disc Cuirass")
.jpg "Massive Stone Age British Bifacial Lanceolate Flint Handaxe")
.jpg "Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Three-Dimensional Urnes Stirrup Apex Mount")
Attachment plate a disc with ellipsoid void and incised linear detailing, triangular extension with chip-carved foliage ornament; separate riveted backplate. 18 grams, 54 mm
Found Fring, Norfolk.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
Accompanied by an old handwritten identification packet.
Found Fring, Norfolk.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
Accompanied by an old handwritten identification packet.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Mary and the infant Christ on a crescent moon, stylised bird below, pellet detailing; pin stump to reverse 2.11 grams, 25 mm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.
Cf. Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim And Secular Badges, London, 1986, p.234; cf. Spencer, B., Pilgrim Souvenirs And Secular Badges, London, 2010, fig.159a.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.
Cf. Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim And Secular Badges, London, 1986, p.234; cf. Spencer, B., Pilgrim Souvenirs And Secular Badges, London, 2010, fig.159a.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Pear-shaped bezel with pointillé cross design. 7.04 grams, 25.07 mm overall, 19.43 mm internal diameter (approximate size British S 1/2, USA 9 1/4, Europe 20.63, Japan 19)
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): £59
Dress pin with squirrel holding an acorn modelled in the round. 1.64 grams, 54 mm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Lozengiform biconvex garnet in a gold setting with beaded wire rim to each face, tubular bale above. 0.57 grams, 11.45 mm
From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.
From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £371
With rib detailing and attachment loop to the reverse; associated with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. 0.42 grams, 9.89 mm
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Cf. Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim & Secular Badges, London, 1986, items 51-6, for pewter examples.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Cf. Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim & Secular Badges, London, 1986, items 51-6, for pewter examples.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Comprising: a talbot on a hinged attachment stud; an openwork rosette; an enamelled plaque with scene of a figure beneath an arch. 50.4 grams total, 34-66 mm
Found UK.
Acquired on the UK art market after 2000.
Ex Stratford collection, Suffolk, UK.
Found UK.
Acquired on the UK art market after 2000.
Ex Stratford collection, Suffolk, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
One with cross pommee and suspension loop above; one a quatrefoil cross pendant within suspended frame and fleur-de-lys inner with central knop, traces of gilding. 10.53 grams total, 25-54 mm
Found near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK.
Acquired on the UK art market in 2012.
Property of a Kent lady collector.
Found near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK.
Acquired on the UK art market in 2012.
Property of a Kent lady collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Obverse with low-relief Christ enthroned holding orb and sceptre, regal crown; reverse with low-relief 'ihs' christogram. 7.21 grams, 32 mm
Found Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
Found Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
.jpg "Large Medieval Round Lead Seal Matrix for John de la Rhodes")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
With central fleur-de-lys and Lombardic script legend to the border 'S'. IOH'IS : DE : LARODE' (seal of John de la Rode/Rhodes). 18.7 grams, 40 mm
Found Norfolk, Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
Accompanied by an old Norfolk Castle Museum record slip.
Found Norfolk, Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
Accompanied by an old Norfolk Castle Museum record slip.
With opposed blades pivoting on a central rivet, loop finial to each arm. 28 grams, 14.5 cm
Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Bearing the arms of arms of the Bishop of Ely, loop absent. 1.67 grams, 19 mm
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Cf. Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, items 197, 198.
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Cf. Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, items 197, 198.
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