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Sold for (Inc. bp): £41,600
.jpg "Attic Red-Figure Bell Krater with Drunken Male Revellers Attributed to the Kadmos Painter")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £32,500
.jpg "Roman Published Terracotta Oil Lamp with Fighting Gladiators")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
.jpg "Roman Marble Head of Hercules Wearing the Nemean Lion Skin")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "The Anglesey Romano-British Marble Head of a Celtic Warrior")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Decorated He who loves from the heart, gives with a good heart Posy Boxwood Comb")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Limoges Gilt Christ Crowned on the Cross")
.jpg "Medieval Gold Heraldic Signet Ring with Goat")
Two hinged arms with caliper handles, the cracking plates with triangular 'knurling'. 62 grams, 10.5 cm
From the estate of Dr J Bynon, UK.
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Accompanied by a dealer's catalogue information card.
From the estate of Dr J Bynon, UK.
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Accompanied by a dealer's catalogue information card.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
With trumpet-shaped bezel and carinated hoop; incised christogram to the bezel with opposed s-scrolls; inscription to the hoop: IN . HONORE[M] . XPIS . TRINITATIS / ELEMOSINA . FRNITATS . ALLO. 7.78 grams, 29.58 mm overall, 19.49 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T, USA 9 1/2, Europe 21.26, Japan 20)
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Comprising lapis lazuli annular and tabular beads with gold spacers. 35 grams, 47 cm
Ex North London, UK, gentleman.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Ex North London, UK, gentleman.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
A glass intaglio bearing a profile bust of Gordian III (238-244 A.D.) with diadem and mantle, inscription to rim 'PONTI PP IIII'; set into a degraded iron finger ring. 17 grams, 40 mm overall, 18.31 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)Fine condition.
Ex D.L. collection; previously the property of her father for over 50 years.
Ex D.L. collection; previously the property of her father for over 50 years.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Written in Maghribi script with polychrome vocals and diacritics, red border framing the text; mounted in a reveal and a glazed wooden frame. 456 grams, 27.5 x 22.5 cmFine condition.
From Morocco, North Africa.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
Originally produced as part of a now disbound Qur'an produced in North Africa, likely in a provincial town. The origins of the script in which it is written date back to 7th century Kairouan, when the Kufic script developed in the East and the Maghribi script in North Africa, today used predominantly in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
From Morocco, North Africa.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
Originally produced as part of a now disbound Qur'an produced in North Africa, likely in a provincial town. The origins of the script in which it is written date back to 7th century Kairouan, when the Kufic script developed in the East and the Maghribi script in North Africa, today used predominantly in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
The Builder's Practical Director - Payne, London, 1807 - hardback, cloth covers, half-calf binding with gold titling to spine, marbled endpapers -263 pp, 130 plates (some hand-tinted). 2 kg, 28.2 x 22.5 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
An atlas volume of forty steel-engraved plates of the Kings and Queens of England from Egbert to the Prince Regent, from the monumental The History of England by Thoyras [Pau] Rapin, with laid down title page stating 'Published by J & J Cundee, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, London'; the plates generally water stained to lower parts and with some light foxing; the original binding of superb quality red morocco bearing the impressed and gilded framed royal arms with repeated emblems (leek, thistle, shamrock and rose) around for the United Kingdom with ornamental corners; rebound at some time with later spine and board edges re-covered. Binding repaired but boards fine (lightly soiled), plates water stained. 786 grams, 32 x 25 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
.jpg "General Books - Boyle - London: A Cartographic History 1746-1950, 200 Years of Folding Maps")
GENERAL BOOKS - BOYLE - LONDON: A CARTOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1746-1950, 200 YEARS OF FOLDING MAPS
2002 A.D.
2002 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Lucinda Boyle - London: A Cartographic History 174 6-1950, 200 Years of Folding Maps - Countrywide, Wycombe, 2002 - hardback with dustwrapper, 161 pp, colour maps. 1.2 kg, 32 x 23 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
A Compleat Index to Mr Madox's History of the Exchequer serving as a Glossary to explain uncommon words, to illustrate the Original of Families and Customs and the Antiquities of the Several Counties in England - Frances Gosling, London, 1741 - hardback, full leather binding with blocked titling to the spine, tooled panels to the front and rear covers - 214 pp; marked to title page 'John Bond'. 1.38 kg, 36.3 x 24.5 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Nigel Nicolson - The Counties of Britain - A Tudor Atlas by John Speed - Pavilion Books, London, 1995 - card covers, 288 pp, reproduction maps. 1.22 kg, 30.5 x 20 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
.jpg "General Books - Nower - A Display of Heraldrie and An Exact Register of All the Knights of the Garter")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Francis Nower - A Display of Heraldrie (5th Edition) - Richard Blome, London, 1679 - hardback, marbled boards, leather quarter binding - 444 pp plus 36 pp, 'An Exact Register of All the Knights of the Garter'. 1.4 kg, 29 x 19.5 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Calendarium Ritulorum Patentium in Turri Londinensi - Eyre & Strahan, 1802 - hardback (rebound), cloth covers enclosing original card, label pasted to spine - 464 pp 2.84 kg, 46 x 30 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
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