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'.

Including scale-tang and whittle-tang types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 145 grams total, 8.1-19.6 cm



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

With a slender D-section hoop, bezel with a ropework border and intaglio motif of a bird in flight. 3.01 grams, 21.78 mm overall, 17.12 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M, USA 6, Europe 12.46, Japan 12)



Private collection formed since the 1940s. UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Discoid in shape with central eight-petalled flower within a roundel, surrounding '+ S’ EVSTACII DE OF’FAR' seal of Eustace of Of'far legend; accompanied by an impression. 18 grams, 36 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 fire steels of various types with ornamental shaping. 118 grams total, 56-75 mm



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

In Roman style, modelled nude in the contrapposto position with defined musculature; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 4.15 kg total, 40 cm high including stand



French private collection, likely from the early 20th century, as indicated by the wooden stand.

Including Royal Artillery, Royal Corps of Signals and various other regimental badges. 166 grams total, 27-66 mm



Acquired since the 1970s. From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

With facetted shoulders and octagonal bezel, deep incised border enclosing incuse image of a figure supporting a large bird on his wrist. 10.39 grams, 24.74 mm overall, 20.30 mm internal diameter (approximate size British V, USA 10 1/2, Europe 23.77, Japan 22)



Private collection formed since the 1940s. UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Mainly ellipsoid carnelian cloisons with incuse animal imagery. 15 grams total, 14-22 mm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Comprising: one with rectangular bowl flat handle with tulip finial; one with oval bowl and stamped motif to bowl and upper handle; one with shallow disc bowl, hexagonal-section handle, maker's mark inside the bowl. 173 grams total, 17-18.6 cm



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

Including tubular, bell-shaped and other types. 13.5 grams total, 18-21 mm



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

Slender hoop surmounted by a trumpet-shaped bezel in 6th-7th century A.D. style with cross fourchee and monogram legend 'SωMИ'. 8.52 grams, 27.19 mm overall, 17.40 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N 1/2, USA 6 3/4, Europe 14.35, Japan 13)



Acquired Schuler Auctions, Zurich, Switzerland. Property of a North American gallery.

Comprising one with kidney-shaped bow and square bit with cruciform void, the other similar with slotted forward end to the shank. 236 grams total, 13.7-16.5 cm



Found on various UK sites since 1974. Property of an Essex collector.