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 - The Herbert Schneider Collection Volume One - English Gold Coins 1257-1603 1996 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Peter Woodhead - London, 1996, hardback with dustwrapper; new in shrinkwrap. 1.6 kg, 25.5 x 20 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Adpendicula Altera Ad Nvmismata Græca Popvlorvm Et Vrbivm: A Jacobo Gesnero Tabulis Aeneis Repræsentata 1764 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Joseph Khell - Vienna, 1764, full calf binding (absent from front cover); 164 pp, 7 plates. 812 grams, 27 x 19.5 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum - Turkey I - The Muharrem Kayhan Collection 2002 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Koray Konuk - Bordeaux, 2002, hardback with cloth covers, 41 plates; new. 763 grams, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - A Catalogue of Ancient Coins in the Cabinet of Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire 2005 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Wilfred Seaby & Stanley Ireland - London, 2005, hardback with dustwrapper, 116, pp 68 plates; new. 968 grams, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Jettons of Imperial Russia 1985 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Robert Werlich - Washington, 1985, hardback with gilt blocking to cover, 128 pp; limited edition of 500 copies; new. 561 grams, 23.5 x 16 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Coin Hoards Volume III - Greek Hoards 1994 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
U wartenberg, M. Jessop Price & K.A. McGregor - London, 1994, hardback with dustwrapper, 113 pp, 87 plates; new. 1.09 kg, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - A Catalogue of 'Abbasid Copper Coins 1998 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Samir Shamma - London, 1998, card covers, 406 pp, English and Arabic text; new. 1.23 kg, 29.6 x 20.8 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Banknote Book: Volume I - III 2014 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Owen W. Linzmayer (ed.) - London, 2014 hardback, 3 volumes, 2355 pp; new. 8.4 kg total, 28.5 x 22 cm each
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum - Greece II - The Alpha Bank Collection - Macedonia I: Alexander I-Perseus 2000 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Sophia Kremydi Sicilianou - Athens, 2000, hardback with dustwrapper 24 pp, 53 plates; new. 859 grams, 30 x 21.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Local Elites and Local Coinage - Elite Self-Representation on Provincial Coinage of Asia, 31 BC to AD 275 2014 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Robert Bennett - London, 2014, hardback with dustwrapper, 177 pp, 31 plates; new. 1.03 kg, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Gilded Dragons: Buried Treasures from China's Golden Ages 1999 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Carol Michaelson - London, 1999, card covers, 176 pp; minor usage wear. 845 grams, 27.7 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - British Historical Medals of the 17th Century 2017 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Jerome J. Platt & Arleem Kay Platt - London, 2017, hardback with dustwrapper, 416 pp; new. 1.78 kg, 25.5 x 20 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.