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 - Roman Imperial Coinage Volume VIII - The Family of Constantine I - A.D. 337-364 2003 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
J.P.C.Kent - London, 2003, hardback with dustwrapper, 605 pp, 28 plates, foldout chart; new. 1.25 kg, 25 x 15.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - International Numismatic Commission - A Survey of Numismatic Research, 2002-2007 2009 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Michael Amdray & Donal Bateson - Glasgow, 2009, card covers, 726 pp; new. 1.89 kg, 29.7 x 21.2 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Seljuq Period in Baghdad, 447-552H, A Numismatic and Historical Study 2011 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Yahya Jafar - London, 2011, hardback, English and Arabic text; new. 1.02 kg, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Seventeenth Century Tokens of the British Isles and Their Values 2004 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Michael Dickinson - London, 2004, hardback with dustwrapper, 292 pp; new. 1.07 kg, 25.5 x 20 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Catalogue des Monnaies Grecques Antiques de L'Ancienne Collection Pozzi - Monnaies Frappées en Europe - Volume I & II 1979 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Serge Boutin - Maastricht, 1979, vol. 1- Text; vol.2 - plates, card covers, 294pp, 202 plates; new. 1.88 kg total, 28 x 22 cm each
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Arabic Coins and How to Read Them 1980 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Richard Plant - London, 1980 (revised edition) card covers, 151 pp 272 grams, 21.7 x 14.1 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Volume V - Ashmolean Museum Oxford - Part XI Asia Minor, Caria to Commagene (except Cyprus) 2013 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Richard Ashton and Stanley Ireland - London, 2013, hardback with cloth covers, 77 plates; new. 990 grams, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Coinage of the Ayyubids 1980 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Paul Balog - London, 1980, hardback with dustwrapper, 334 pp, 50 plates; new. 1.16 kg, 25.5 x 19.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Ancient Numismatics and its History 2004 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Ernest Babelon (trans Elizabeth Saville) - London, 2004, hardback with dustwrapper, 248 pp; new. 579 grams, 23.5 x 15.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Brussels Hoard of 1908 - The Long Cross Coinage of Henry III 2012 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Ron Churchill & Bob Thomas - London, 2012, hardback with dustwrapper, 319 pp, 22 plates; new. 1.55 kg, 27.7 x 20 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 62 - The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750 Part VIII - Middlesex and Uncertain Pieces 2011 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
R.H. Thompson & M.J. Dickinson - London, 2011, hardback with dustwrapper, 438 pp; new. 1.6 kg, 25.5 x 19.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Catalogue of Papal Medals 2000 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Spink & Son - London, 1898 (reprinted 2000), card covers, 123 pp; new. 191 grams, 22 x 14 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.