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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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.jpg "Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary")
.jpg "Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis")
.jpg "Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
.jpg "Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds")
.jpg "Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Spherical with traces of pecked manufacture technique and old inked inscription: '874'. 252 Grams, 7 cm
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.
Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.) Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 6.23, for a more developed example of the type.
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.
Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.) Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 6.23, for a more developed example of the type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Group comprising a rounded handaxe with inked number 'AR2753' and indistinct reference above; dagger with inked reference '.9904.87'; with beautiful workmanship to each side and the tip. 276 grams total, 8.5-11.6 cm
Found Le Grand Pressigny, France.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Found Le Grand Pressigny, France.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Round-butted axehead with cortex to edge and both faces; marked 'BUIGNY'. 197 grams, 12 cm
Found Buigny, Northern France.
Ex old French collection.
Acquired prior to 2000.
From a private Norfolk, UK, collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.7. for type.
Found Buigny, Northern France.
Ex old French collection.
Acquired prior to 2000.
From a private Norfolk, UK, collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.7. for type.
.jpg "Stone Age Acheulean Homo Erectus Dark Red Quartzite Axehead")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Substantial triangular-section handaxe with broad rounded butt. 433 grams, 13.9 cm
From the British art market in the 1970s-1980s.
Acquired via inheritance, 1988.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
See Cranshaw, S., Handaxes and Cleavers: Selected English Acheulian Industries, BAR British Series 113, Oxford, 1983, pl.9.
From the British art market in the 1970s-1980s.
Acquired via inheritance, 1988.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
See Cranshaw, S., Handaxes and Cleavers: Selected English Acheulian Industries, BAR British Series 113, Oxford, 1983, pl.9.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
Marked 'Poligny/2915', 'Lamonie.24 / Montgetell 3.7.68', 'La Vergne Larlux /24/JRV', 'Vengues/57'. 180 grams total, 67-88 mm
Found France.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Found France.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Substantial cleaver with one worked edge; old collector's label 'From the River = Sandown, IOW / River Yare / Alveston - to Sandown'. 1.11 kg, 15.2 cm
Found by the River Yare, between Alvestone and Sandown, Isle of Wight, UK.
Ex Victor Brox collection, UK, formed during the 1980s-1990s.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Found by the River Yare, between Alvestone and Sandown, Isle of Wight, UK.
Ex Victor Brox collection, UK, formed during the 1980s-1990s.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising a core axe, two blade cores, a denticulate saw and an end scraper. 253 grams total, 32-90 mm
The core axe found Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, UK; and Culverwell, Portland Bill, Dorset, UK.
Ex Hampshire, UK, collection, 1970s.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue page.
The core axe found Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, UK; and Culverwell, Portland Bill, Dorset, UK.
Ex Hampshire, UK, collection, 1970s.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue page.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
lentoid in section with broad rounded butt and narrow tip, chipped; with inked inscription to narrow end: 'NEAR / MAXEY / CAMBS'. 588 grams, 17 cm.
Found near Maxey, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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.
Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.) Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.192, for type.
Found near Maxey, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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.
Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.) Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.192, for type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Irregular-shaped; with an old inked inscription: '8.SM.1028.A Twydall'. 68 grams, 74 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK.
Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915.
Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections.
Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis.
Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall.
The Twydall finds are discussed in Beresford, F.R., Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection, in Lithics, Vol.39, 2021.
Found Twydall, Kent, UK.
Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915.
Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections.
Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis.
Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall.
The Twydall finds are discussed in Beresford, F.R., Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection, in Lithics, Vol.39, 2021.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Flaked blank flint of biconvex section with broad butt and rounded tip. 249 grams, 16 cm
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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 3.1.
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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 3.1.
.jpg "Stone Age Salisbury Flaked Flint Axehead")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Biconvex in section with narrow point and cortex to one face bearing old collector's inked legend 'SALISBURY'. 69 grams, 94 mm
Found fieldwalking near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, by Mr P.M.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.28, for type.
Found fieldwalking near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, by Mr P.M.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.28, for type.
.jpg "Stone Age British Flint Tool Collection")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising ovate scrapers, flint points, burins and other types, some with cortex remaining. 613 grams total, 4.1-10.3 cm
From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.
From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.
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