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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Great Britain. Windsor, George V AR Halfcrown. 1910-1936.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Dated 1930. Fourth coinage. Design by Bertram Mackennal. GEORGIVS V DEI GRA: BRITT: OMN: REX, bare head to left; [B.P. in small lettering on truncation] / FID DEF IND IMP, shield with concave sides; interlinked G's, crowned on each side; denomination and date around below. SCBC 4037; ESC 779 (R2). 14.00gr, 32mm, 12h
Very Fine. Very Rare.
By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady. -
Great Britain. George VI AE Threepence. Dated 1946.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Design by Thomas Humphrey Paget and Madge Kitchener. GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX F:D:IND:IMP., bare head to left; designer's initials below truncation / THREE PENCE, three-headed 'thrift' plant; date below. SCBC 4112; KM# 849. 6.77gr, 21mm, 12h
Very Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Windsor, Elizabeth II Blank Error One Pound. 2017.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
ELIZABETH II D. G. REG . F . D, crowned head to right, date with panel below / National symbols with denomination below. 8.57gr, 23mm, 12h
Extremely Fine. Lustrous, extremely rare and exceptional. Apparently unique.
Property of a Wiltshire, UK, collector.
This One Pound coin of the new type (issued 2017) has been struck on a metal error blank, rather than on the bi-metallic flan that should have been used; such occurrences are extremely rare. -
Great Britain. Mixed Silver Issues Group. Dated 1837-1937.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising: various monarchs, issues, and reverse types. 53.20gr total, 15-33mm
Good - Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Great Britain. Elizabeth II, Tubed Halfcrown Group. 1967.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
[5 x 25 = 125] Obvs: +ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA, portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, by Mary Gillick / FID DEF HALF CROWN 1967, crowned quartered shield of arms with the initials E and R on each side, engraved by Cecil Thomas. 1.82kg total, 32mm each
Uncirculated.
By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady. -
Great Britain. Hanover, Victoria, George V & VI, Threepence Group. 1898-1941.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Group comprising: fourteen Threepences dated 1898, 1901, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1940, 1941. 19.45gr total, 16mm
Fine - Extremely Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Hanover. Victoria AR Coin Group. Dated 1856-1891.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Comprising: four shillings and one sixpence. 24.87gr total, 19-23mm
Good - Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; From the private collection of Mr G.B., Hampshire, UK. -
Great Britain. Two Pounds and Other Coin Group. 1986-1995.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Mixed group comprising: various commemorative £2 coins, one £1, and two Battle of Britain 50 pence pieces. 175gr total, 22-30mm
Mostly Extremely Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Great Britain. George III-George V, Farthing, Halfpenny & Penny Group. 1807-1928.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising: copper pennies dated 1891, 1900, 2 x 1901, 4 x 1902, 6 x 1903, 3 x 1904, 3 x 1906, 3 x 1908, 2 x 1909, 1928, copper halfpennies dated 1807 and 1905, and copper farthings dated 1822 and 1838. 283gr total, 21-31mm
Fair - Good Very Fine.
By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady. -
English Milled Coin and Commemorative Group. Dated 1844-1981 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Mixed group comprising: four commemorative crowns, silver plated spoon and stamps commemorating the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer, a Victorian Sixpence, and two George V Threepence pieces. 209gr total, 16-33mm
Fair - Mint State.
English private collection. -
Hanover. Elizabeth II Halfcrown Group. 1955-1957.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising: four Elizabeth II Halfcrowns dated 1955, 2 x 1956, and 1957. SCBC 4145. 61gr total, 32mm
About Uncirculated.
By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady. -
Hanover. Elizabeth II Halfcrown Group. 1961-1967.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising: six Elizabeth II Halfcrowns dated 2 x 1961, 1963, 2 x 1964, and 1967. SCBC 4145. 91gr total, 32mm
About Uncirculated.
By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady.