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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")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
On a heater-shaped shield with pierced loop at the apex, three horizontal bars with the remains of red enamel; possibly descended from Rochefort de Chars of Gasc. 10.05 grams, 39.64 mm
Found Norfolk, UK, circa 1990s.
Cf. Rietstap, J. B., V. & H. V. Rolland's Illustrations to the Armorial General, volumes V & VI, pl.CLXXIII.
Found Norfolk, UK, circa 1990s.
Cf. Rietstap, J. B., V. & H. V. Rolland's Illustrations to the Armorial General, volumes V & VI, pl.CLXXIII.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Mixed group including lead-alloy spindlewhorls, bag-seals, musket balls, iron knife-blades and other items. 510 grams total, 0.6-16.5 cm
From a Northampton, UK, collector.
From a Northampton, UK, collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Discoid integral bezel with low-relief anchor motif. 4.55 grams, 21.38 mm overall, 18.26 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)
From the collection of a High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman, circa 2000.
From the collection of a High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman, circa 2000.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £140
Square plaque with pierced suspension lug above; hatched frame with round recess, heater-shaped panel with red enamel field and castle gate motif. 13.3 grams, 45 mm
Found Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
See Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, for discussion.
Possibly the arms of the kingdom of Castille which were adopted in 1175 according to local legend: blazoned 'Gules a triple-towered castle Or masoned Sable and ajoure Azure'.
Found Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
See Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, for discussion.
Possibly the arms of the kingdom of Castille which were adopted in 1175 according to local legend: blazoned 'Gules a triple-towered castle Or masoned Sable and ajoure Azure'.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
With strap to the rear and lug above, central quatrefoil and pelletted border, legend '+ S' : RICHRDI : [.].]NIHIC' (seal of Richard ...). 14.7 grams, 31 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.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
With teardrop plaque and heraldic design of crosses potent flanking chevrons. 4.43 grams, 20.79 mm overall, 18.04 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)
From the collection of a High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman, circa 2000.
From the collection of a High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman, circa 2000.
With broad, shallow bowl, narrow round-section handle, knop finial. 17.8 grams, 15.5 cm
Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
See Jackson, C.J., The Spoon and its History, in Archaeologia, vol.53, for discussion.
Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
See Jackson, C.J., The Spoon and its History, in Archaeologia, vol.53, for discussion.
.jpg "Medieval Thames Bifacial Pewter Wine Tavern Token")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Disc token with bird-and-cross motif to the obverse, hatched reverse. 0.65 grams, 16 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): £117
In sheet-gold with a loop to the reverse. 0.28 grams, 13 mm
From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.
From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.
Formed with a slightly curved profile and with suspension loops; buff-coloured. 298 grams, 26.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Apart from badges as souvenirs of visits to various saints’ shrines, pilgrims might also bear away with them various noise-making items such as horns, whistles, rattles and bells. The miniature horn-shaped lead whistles known from London and Salisbury bear various inscriptions including bla me [blow me] and ave maria. In the contemporary ‘morality’ play Mankind (c.1465-70) of East Anglian provenance, the character Nought says I kan pype in a Walsyngham wystyll, which suggests that such souvenir whistles were available from the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham too, and that already such ‘tourist’ trinkets were regarded as a proverbial type of worthlessness, ‘not worth a whistle’, indeed.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Apart from badges as souvenirs of visits to various saints’ shrines, pilgrims might also bear away with them various noise-making items such as horns, whistles, rattles and bells. The miniature horn-shaped lead whistles known from London and Salisbury bear various inscriptions including bla me [blow me] and ave maria. In the contemporary ‘morality’ play Mankind (c.1465-70) of East Anglian provenance, the character Nought says I kan pype in a Walsyngham wystyll, which suggests that such souvenir whistles were available from the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham too, and that already such ‘tourist’ trinkets were regarded as a proverbial type of worthlessness, ‘not worth a whistle’, indeed.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Openwork dagger sheath fitting, L-shaped border with figure of a mounted knight in a helm amid foliage; attachment points in the corner of the border. 8.05 grams, 39 mm
Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Similar to a find recorded with the PAS under reference BERK-2C6116.
Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Similar to a find recorded with the PAS under reference BERK-2C6116.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
With pierced tag, central incised pentagram with impressed pellets, legend to the border ' + SIGIŁŁ ROBERTI FILI VVIMERI' (seal of Robert son of Wigmær). 27.2 grams, 52 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.
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