Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200
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. -
Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550
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. -
Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000
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. -
Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
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. -
Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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 Marble Memento Mori Skull
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
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. -
'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700
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'.
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England. Tudor, Elizabeth I AR Sixpence. Dated 1561.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Third issue; m.m. pheon. Type bust 3D. ELIZABETH D G ANG FR ET HIB REGINA, crowned and draped bust with hair brushed back to left; plain rose behind / POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV, long cross fourchée over square shield, date above. North 1997; SCBC 2559. 2.79gr, 25mm, 9h
Near Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
England. Stuart, James I AR Sixpence. Dated 1603.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
First coinage; second bust. IACOBVS D G ANG SCO FRA ET HIB REX, crowned and draped bust to right, XII behind; 'thistle' mintmark / EXVRGAT DEVS DISSIPENTVR INIMICO, arms; date above. SCBC 2648. 2.51gr, 26mm, 3h
Near Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
England. Stuart, Charles I AR Halfcrown. 1644-1645.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Tower mint. CAROLVS D G MAG BRI FRA ET HIB REX, third horseman king trotting to left with cloak flying over shoulder, sword upright; uncertain mintmark / CHRISTO AVSPICE REGNO, garnished oval shield; '(R)' mintmark. SCBC 2778. 15.56gr, 34mm, 2h
Near Fine.
Found in Hampshire, UK. -
England. Stuart, Charles I AR Sixpence. 1625-1649.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Tower mint; mm: plume. Struck 1630-1631. Group C; third bust; type 2a. Crowned and draped bust to left, wearing ruff; VI (mark of value) to right / Coat-of-arms with C.R. above. Brooker 591; North 2238; SCBC 2809. 2.80gr, 24mm, 7h
Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Scotland. Alexander III AR Penny. 1249-1286.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
First Coinage, Sterling. Type VIII. +ALEXANDER REX, crowned head to right with thick jewelled crown / [...] N ON B(?) [...], long cross voided with pellet terminals, stars of six points in angles. SCBC 5047. 1.32gr, 17mm
Very Fine. Edge chipped.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Scotland. Alexander III AR Penny. 1249-1286.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Second coinage. Circa 1280-1286. +ALEXANDER DEI GRA, crowned bust to left with sceptre / +REX SCO TOR VM, long cross; six-rayed star in each angle. SCBC 5054. 1.28gr, 19mm, 4h
Near Very Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Scotland. Robert II AR Halfpenny. 1371-1390.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Edinburgh mint. +ROBЄRTVS RЄX, crowned bust to left with sceptre / VIL ΛЄD INB BVR, voided long cross, pierced mullet of five points in angles. SCBC 5152. 0.45gr, 14mm, 12h
Good Fine. Toned; uneven flan. Rare; unusual mint spelling.
Found in Suffolk, UK. -
Ireland. Edward I AR Penny. 1216-1272.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Dublin mint. Second coinage, 1279-1302. Type Ia. Crowned bust facing with trefoil of pellets below; all within triangle / CIVI TAS DVBL InIE, long cross pattée, three pellets in each angle. D.F.63; SCBC 6246A. 1.20gr, 19mm, 7h
Fine - Good Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Anglo-Gallic. Edward III AR Half-Esterlin / Demi-Sterling. As Duke of Aquitaine, 1327-1377.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Uncertain mint. EDWARD REX ANGL', crowned bust facing slightly to left; below, leopard to left / DVX AQVITANIE, long cross pattée terminating in quatrefoils; crowns in each quarter. AGC 57; Elias 57; SCBC 8048. 0.54gr, 14mm, 3h
Fine. Rare.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Ireland. Edward VI Brass Shilling - 'Bungal'. 1557-1553.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
Dated 1551. Contemporary cast imitation of the Dublin mint. ЄDWARD VI: D. G. AGL. FRAN. Z: HB. RЄX, crowned and mantled bust to right / TIMOR DOMINI: FONS: VITЄ: N: E: XL: TX:, garnished coat-of-arms; E R flanking. SCBC 6494A. 4.62gr, 32mm, 3h
Good Fine. Small split to flan. Rare.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector. -
England. Medieval to Tudor Mixed AR Coin Group. 1413-1422.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Comprising: mixed monarchs, issues and reverse types including Pennies of Henry II, III, Edward I, III and others, a Shilling and Penny of James I, and coins of Elizabeth I, plus Half Groats of Edward III and Henry VII with rosette stops. 28.38gr, 15-28mm
Fair - Good Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. -
England. Stephen-Henry III, AR Cut Halfpenny and Farthing Group. 1135-1272.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising: mixed monarchs, issues and reverse types including Stephen, Henry II, III, and a Scottish cut Halfpenny. 9.02gr, 12-20mm
Fair - Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK.