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. Salisbury AE Halfpenny Token. 1659.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
THE.MAIOR.OF.THE. 1659, around a double-headed eagle / CITY.OF.NEW-SARVM, city arms in centre. Dickenson 164, pl.4. 1.64gr, 18mm, 6h
Very Fine. Cuts of both sides.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Great Britain. Norwich, Norfolk AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1792.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Design by William Wyon. MAY NORWICH FLOURISH. PRO BONO PUBLICO, the Arms of Norwich; castle triple-towered with gateway, over passant gardant lion to left with raised paw / NORFOLK AND NORWICH HALFPENNY., the Arms of the Duke of Norfolk: shield with six crosses and diagonal stripe with lion, over batons; date below. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT N. BOLINGBROKES HABERDASHER & C. NORWICH · X ·. DH.14. 10.06gr, 29mm, 6h
Extremely Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Leek, Staffordshire AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1793.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
LEEK COMMERCIAL HALFPENNY, caduceus in front of bales of goods, date below / ARTE FAVENTE NIL DESPERANDUM, clasped hands in front of olive branches. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT LEEK . STAFFORDSHIRE. DH.13a. 9.53gr, 28mm, 6h
Good Very Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Sir Isaac Newton, Middlesex AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1793.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
SR. ISAAC NEWTON, bust to left / HALFPENNY, caduceus, olive branch, and cornucopia. Edge: Engrailed. DH.1033. 10gr, 28mm, 7h
Near Extremely Fine. Edge knock a 5h.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Deal, Kent AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1794.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Engraved by William Wyon. THE GUARD & GLORY OF G'BRITAIN, man-of-war ship in full sail to right / DEAL HALFPENNY TOKEN, shield of arms of the Cinque Ports within oak sprigs beneath date. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT RICHARD LONG'S LIBRARY . X . DH.11. 8.38gr, 29mm, 6h
Extremely Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Winchelsea, Sussex AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1794.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
INDUSTRY THE SOURCE OF CONTENT, beehive and bees / WINCHELSEA HALFPENNY, arms, date below. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT RICHARD MARSDENS WINCHESTER. DH 41. 9.64gr, 29mm, 6h
About Very Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Chichester, Sussex AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1794.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
IOHN HOWARD F.R.S.PHILANTHROPIST, bust to left / PORTSMOUTH AND CHICHESTER HALFPENNY, the sun and moon over castle; date below. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT SHARPS PORTSMOUTH AND CHALDECOTTS CHICHESTER. D&H Sussex.19; A.18. 9.69gr, 29mm, 6h
Very Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Sussex AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1794.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
MAY HOPS FOR EVER FLOURISH, man picking hops / SUSSEX HALFPENNY TOKEN, shield of arms within sprigs; date below. Edge inscription: PAYABLE BY T. FOSTER LAMBERHURST + + + +. DH.33. 9.21gr, 29mm, 6h
Extremely Fine. Very rare.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Appledore, Kent AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1794.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Design by William Wyon. THE UNION OF APPLEDORE KENT, small man in centre carrying a sack of grain from part of building to left into Appledore Windmill to right; below, date / PEACE INNOCENCE AND PLENTY, lion and lamb lying together to left in standing corn. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT W. PECKHAM'S APPLEDORE · X · X · X ·. DH. 3; Atkins 2. 9.47gr, 29mm, 6h
About Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Chelmsford, Essex AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1794.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
KING AND CONSTITUTION on ribbon; above, crown and scepter with rays all around; date below / Building with ribbon underneath inscribed SHIRE HALL. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT CLACHAR & CO'S CHELMSFORD ESSEX. DH.5. 8.36gr, 29mm, 6h
Good Very Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Middlesex AE Halfpenny Political Token. Dated 1794.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
TRIED FOR HIGH TREASON J. H. TOOKE ESQR, bust to right, date below / NOT GUILTY SAY THE JURY EQUAL JUDGES OF LAW AND FACT COUNSEL HON T ERSKINE V GIBBS ESQR in seven lines. DH.1047. 8.61gr, 28mm, 6h
Good Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Richardson's, Middlesex AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1795.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
NOTHING VENTURE NOTHING HAVE, blindfolded figure of Fortune stood upon wheel and between two crowned lottery wheels with royal cyphers; date in exergue / AT THE OFFICES OF RICHARDSON GOODLUCK & Co No 12807 THE LAST PRIZE OF £30 000 SHARED WAS SOLD IN SIXTEENTHS in eight lines. No edge inscription. DH.467; Atkins.350. 10.88gr, 31mm, 6h
Good Fine.
Property of an Essex collector.