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'.

Collection of mainly bronze and silver buttons and fasteners, labelled and mounted in a glazed wooden display case; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series and Buttons & Fasteners 500 BC-AD 1840. 3.1 kg total, 51 x 36 x 5 cm including case



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

Panel in frame of lead cames with painted heraldic design in elaborate style, the shield divided per pale with gules a fleur-de-lys or and argent a rosette gules; scroll below with partial text '[H]enrich Volse[...]'. 126 grams, 15.5 cm



with De Baecque Encheres, 5 March 2022, no.49.

Including crucifix pendant, biconvex finger ring, brooch with rotating George III coin and other items; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 175 grams total, 17-84 mm



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

Comprising four sickles and one pruning knife with crescent blade and the whittle tang handle terminating in a hook, two with reconstructed modern handle; one sickle with cutler's mark EE. 1.32 kg total, 20.5-37.5 cm



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

Among our specimens a particular importance is given to the 13th century A.D. sickle with a maker's marks evident on the blade. Like many knives, sickles sometimes carry a cutler's mark. Sickles were produced in various sizes depending on the type of work they were to be used for. The large examples would have been used for clearing weeds or harvesting hay or crops. The small sickles would have been used for cutting herbs or similar.

Restrung necklace of annular beads with interstitial coin types, the centrepiece a tabular disc pendant. 30.6 grams, 64 cm long



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Comprising a variety of glaze colours, with designs featuring animals, figural vignettes floral and vegetal motifs and architectural and landscape scenes. 4.1 kg total, 13 x 13 cm each



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

Mainly flat and plano-convex carnelian inserts with low-relief beast images. 26 grams total, 15-26 mm



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

Including triangular and discoid types, the former with stamped numerals and dentilled upper edge; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 240 grams total, 22-71 mm



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

Comprising a broad hoop, octagonal bezel with chamfered edges, punched-point border, central motif of a shield and supporters. 6.36 grams, 22.28 mm overall, internal diameter 17.95 x 19.55 mm (approximate size British R, USA 8 1/2, Europe 18 3/4, Japan 18)



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

Including tinned and bronze types with heraldic, rosette, geometric and other designs; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series as well as Buttons & Fasteners 500BC-1840AD. 427 grams total, 11-34 mm



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

Two-part, four-lobed seal with strap and tag above; obverse with heater shield bearing the arms of the City of London with legend to beaded border 'DE * LO[.]DI ONO' (from London); reverse with angel holding an orb with legend 'GLORIA * IN * EXCELSIS' (glory in the highest); accompanied by a letter from the British Museum, with attachments. 37.5 grams, 57 mm



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968. Accompanied by the original Museum of London letter by Geoff Egan dated 3rd January 1979.

The item was identified by Geoff Egan (then on secondment from the Museum of London to the British Museum) in 1979 as a four-lobed cloth seal, of a type which had recently been found from a shipwreck off the coast of Norway. The likelihood is that the seal was issued by or in connection with Blackwell Hall, which had a near-monopoly on the cloth trade in 17th c. London. The significance of the angel motif and the motto were not known to Egan, and are still debated.

Including a table knife and fork, awl, nail-cleaner and swivel-mounted collar, mounted on a fabric-covered display board with titling panels. 287 grams total, 7.7-15 cm



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