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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Numismatic Books - Sasanian Coins - A Sylloge of the Sasanian Coins of the National Museum of Iran (Muzeh Melli Iran), Tehran - Volume 2 Khusrau II - Yazdgard III 2012 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, E. Elahé Askari, Elizabeth J. Pendleton - London, 2012, hardback with dustwrapper 249 pp; new, small tear to dust jacket. 2.14 kg, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Fides - Contributions to Numismatics in Honor of Richard B. Witschonke 2015 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Peter G. van Alfen, Gilles Bransbourg & Michel Amandry - New York, 2015, hardback with cloth covers, 507 pp. 2.77 kg, 28.6 x 22.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 42 - South-Eastern Museums - Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon, and Later Coins to 1279 1992 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
A.J.H. Gunstone - Oxford, 1992, hardback with dustwrapper, 208 pp; new. 903 grams, 25.5 x 19.6 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Coin Circulation in the Danubian and Balkan Provinces of the Roman Empire, AD 294-578 1993 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
G.L. Duncan - London, 1993, hardback with dustwrapper, 192 pp; new. 1.07 kg, 30.5 x 21.6 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - New Evidence for Sasanian Numismatics: The Collection of Ahmad Saeedi 2004 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rika Gyselen (ed.) - Paris, 2004, hardback; new in shrinkwrap. 705 grams, 28.6 x 22.6 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 28 - Cummulative Index of Volumes 1-20 1981 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Veronica Smart - Oxford, 1981, hardback with cloth covers, 118 pp; new. 550 grams, 25.5 x 19 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Royal Service, Volume II 2001 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
James Risk et al - London, 2001, hardback with dustwrapper, 368 pp; new. 1.83 kg, 30.5 x 21.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Typos III - Monnaies Grecques en Gaule - Le Tresor de'Auriol et le Monnayage de Massalia 525/520 - 460 avant JC 1978 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Andreas E. Furtwängler - Fribourg, 1978, hardback with dustwrapper, 336 pp, 44 plates; new. 983 grams, 25.2 x 19 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Metallurgy in Numismatics, Volume 4 1998 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
W. A. Oddy & M. R. Cowell - London, 1998, hardback with dustwrapper, 538 pp; new. 1.73 kg, 25.3 x 19.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Arabic Gold Coins Corpus I - Polymnia. Numismatica Antica e medievale. Documenti 2010 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Giulio Bernardi - Trieste, 2010, hardback, 421 pp; new. 1.53 kg, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The English Civil wars, Medals, Historical Commentary & Personalities, Volume I & II 1998 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Jerome Platt & Arleen Kay Platt - London, 1998, hardback in slipcase in shrinkwrap; new. 4.2 kg total, 29.3 x 22.4 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain 2006 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Michael J. Freeman - London, 2006, hardback, 232 pp, 18 plates; new. 588 grams, 22.3 x 14.6 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.