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'.

Each vesica-shaped, with central fleur-de-lys or other motif and surrounding legend. 53.1 grams total, 29-42 mm



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

Quatrefoil with central lion stattant guardant on red enamelled field, crown to each lobe on blue field. 6.43 grams, 24 mm



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

Both with central eight-petalled flower within a roundel, surrounding inscription, one with legend 'S' WILLI WASRAT' = Seal of William Wasrat; the other with 'S' HENRICI BREIWOOD' = Seal of Henry Brewood, the family originating in Brewood, Staffordshire. 21.4 grams total, 25-27 mm



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

During the medieval period the use of seals on documents, letters and packages became widespread. Lead was cheap to use and easy to engrave, and from the late 12th until the end of 13th century seals of this type, with very conventional central designs, were important possessions amongst the lower classes.

Including hooked tags, trefoil rosette hooks, slotted tags and other items; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series and Buttons & Fasteners 500 BC-AD 1840. 54.6 grams total, 20-54 mm



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

Octagonal in plan with scooped sides, enamelled design of a facing bearded bust with nimbus. 19 grams, 42 mm



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

Wearing a jewelled cope and with a disc brooch on the folded collar; lead came frame with suspension loops. 75 grams, 10.5 cm



Ex central London gallery.

Decorated with three crowned lion heads with long tongues and large circular eyes, framed by the bottom half of a shield-shaped background. 930 grams, 13.5 x 13.5 cm



Benjamin Proust, 2015. Ex central London gallery.

Heater-shaped with raised border and reserved three lions passant gardant on an enamelled field. 9.52 grams, 39 mm



Found UK. From the collection of a Wiltshire, UK, gentleman, 1990s.

With carinated hoop, scaphoid bezel, incised zigzag design. 1.42 grams, 18.89 mm.



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Essex, UK, collector.

Mainly comprising folding knives and other knife blades. 3.65 kg total, 2-25.5 cm



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. Ex East Anglian private collection.

Amongst the considerable variations in Medieval knife blade shapes, the two most obvious are the blades with angled backs (like some examples here presented) and those with stepped backs.

Including thimbles, belt plates, seals and other items; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 267 grams total, 16-93 mm



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

With lateral angle handles and low-relief 'IHS' monogram to one face of the bulb, hatched design to the reverse. 39.7 grams, 54 mm



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