Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.

Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.

Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.

An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.

Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.

Comprising a narrow shank rising to a triangular bezel with inset lapis lazuli cabochon at the apex. 3.42 grams, 28.86 mm overall, 17.85 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Matched pair, each a square-section iron bar with tapering ends, crescent finials forming angled legs; raised finials with swan-neck (two absent); old collector's labels '3' and '4'. 990 grams total, 37-38.5 cm



Ex Robin Symes Gallery, Mayfair, UK, pre 1999.

Mixed group including casket keys and a large door key with warded bit and balustered shank. 82 grams total, 3-11.6 cm



Found near York, UK.

Comprising a rectangular openwork body with a lion passant guardant with engraved detailing; rivet hole to each corner. 6.5 grams, 32 mm



Found Norfolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-6C0DF6.

Including furniture fittings, knife handle, hooked clasp and other items; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 255 grams total, 41-90 mm



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

One with incuse squirrel motif; the other with a bird of prey seizing a smaller bird, accompanied by the legend 'ALAS IE SV PRIS' for 'Alas, I am caught'. 15.4 grams total, 21 mm each



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Including polyhedral, hipped, biconvex and other types in a felt-lined glazed wooden display case with labels; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 1.4 kg total, 37.5 cm including box



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Sheet brass appliqué of a rider with plumed hat holding the reins of a tall beast in repoussé; ropework border behind and below. 0.71 grams, 49 mm



Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK. Ex Den of Antiquities, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Comprising a gilt-bronze ring brooch with segmented face to the hoop, and a larger ring brooch with twisted ropework detailing; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 3.6 grams total, 14-20 mm



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Chessman-type with pierced finial; die with capital 'R' beneath a crown surrounded by a wreath. 8.8 grams, 26 mm



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Including one with folded tubular handle and another shaped like a ship with curved prow. 116 grams total, 8.9-11.3 cm



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Quatrefoil in plan with curved suspension bar, reserved griffin passant on a red enamel field. 13.8 grams, 40 mm



Found Norfolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.