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Graduated set of three dice, each cuboid with ring-and-dot markings disposed 1:6, 2:5, 3:4. 2.2 grams total, 5-8 mm
From the important private collection of dice and gaming pieces of Colin Narbeth, London, UK, collection no.129.
From the important private collection of dice and gaming pieces of Colin Narbeth, London, UK, collection no.129.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Obverse with bishop wearing mitre and holding crook, reverse with octofoil, alternating plain and hatched petals. 0.83 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): £130
Quatrefoil panel with radiating spurs in the spandrels, high-relief mask of a helmetted warrior flanked by two drawn swords. 13.4 grams, 47 mm
From a Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
From a Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Including beehive, annular and other types. 38 grams total, 14-24 mm
Found Suffolk, UK.
Found Suffolk, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Including one with a glazed fret design, one with radiating combs and another type. 1.65 kg total, 11.6-13.1 cm
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.
Including milled coins, musket balls, buckle loops, belt and harness fittings, buttons and other items. 1.09 kg total, 12-62 mm
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Including discoid and square types with punched numerical values to one face. 28 grams total, 14-16 mm
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Including buckle loops, buttons, fasteners, milled coins and other items, 1.06 kg total, 8-86 mm
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Comprising: rectangular panel with carved openwork quatrefoil; two matched shelves each with a high-relief design of grapes, vine and quatrefoil leaf. 3.9 kg total, 27.1-33 cm
Acquired from various UK auction houses.
Property of a Kent collector.
Acquired from various UK auction houses.
Property of a Kent collector.
Appliqué cross crosslet with central lobed motif. 1.54 grams, 20 mm
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Page of a rag-paper bible with text printed in two columns and with marginal notes to both sides; portion of Book of Jeremiah; printed in Strasbourg by Johann Grüninger with commentary by Nicholas de Lyra. 13 grams, 32.2 x 22.8 cm
From the private collection of M. Cummings, Lincolnshire, UK, 1990s.
Johannes Grüninger (1455-1533) was a prolific German printer, active from 1482 to 1533, who printed up to 80 books a year in Latin and in German, as well as wall-maps. His bible was issued in two volumes, which allowed it be produced on smaller pages than for most standard editions.
From the private collection of M. Cummings, Lincolnshire, UK, 1990s.
Johannes Grüninger (1455-1533) was a prolific German printer, active from 1482 to 1533, who printed up to 80 books a year in Latin and in German, as well as wall-maps. His bible was issued in two volumes, which allowed it be produced on smaller pages than for most standard editions.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Epiphesis of a bovine long bone with the end worked into a square-section block with vertical slots to accept pins; group of fourteen ball-headed garment pins, manly brass. 193 grams total, 3.2- 18 cm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.
Cf. Egan, G. & Pritchard, F., Dress Accessories 1150-1450, London, 2002, item 204, for type.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.
Cf. Egan, G. & Pritchard, F., Dress Accessories 1150-1450, London, 2002, item 204, for type.
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