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 - Coins of Europe - Catalogue 1901-2012 2012 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Thomas Gregory Kosinski & Tomasz Kosinski - card covers, 709 pp; new. 1.79 kg, 29.7 x 21 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Coins and Medals of the English Civil War - Completely Revised and Updated 2019 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Edward Besly - London, 2019, hardback with dustwrapper, 166 pp; new. 616 grams, 24 x 16.3 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 40 - Royal Coin Cabinet Stockholm Part IV - Anglo-Saxon Coins Harold I and Harthacnut 1035-1042 1991 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
T. Talvio - Oxford, 1991, hardback with dustwrapper, 199 pp; new. 822 grams, 25.5 x 19.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Volume IX - The British Museum - 2: Spain 1998 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Meadows, Andrew R & Bagwell-Purefoy, Peter - hardback, cloth covers, London, 2002, new in shrinkwrap. 1.2 kg, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - An Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards 1973 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Margaret Thompson, Otto Mørkholm & Colin Kraay - New York, 1973, card covers, 408 pp; new. 1.09 kg, 27.3 x 19 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Abbey and Mint of Bury St Edmunds to 1279 and from 1279 - Two Volumes 2017 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Robin J. Eaglen - Vol. 1, London, 2006, hardback with dustwrapper, 357 pp, 21 plates; Vol. 2, London, 2006, hardback with dustwrapper, 357 pp, 21 plates; new. 2.8 kg total, 27.5 x 20 cm each
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Soho Mint & the Industrialization of Money 1998 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Richard Doty - London, 1998, hardback with dustwrapper; new in shrinkwrap. 1.7 kg, 28.7 x 21.6 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Corpus of the Nomismata from Anastasius II to John I in Constantinople 713-976 2007 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Franz Füeg - Lancaster, 2007, hardback with dustwrapper, 193 pp, CD-ROM corpus; new. 1.03 kg, 30 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Coinage of the Opountian Lokrians 2014 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Jacqueline Morineau Humphries and Diana Delbridge - London, 2014, hardback with dustwrapper, 247 pp, 61 plates; new. 1.33 kg, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Typos V - Die Münzprägung Milets - vom vierten bis ersten Jahrhundert v. Chr. 1984 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Barbara Deppert-Lippitz - Aarau, 1984, hardback with dustwrapper; new in shrinkwrap. 856 grams, 25.2 x 19.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Herbert Schneider Collection Volume Three - Anglo-Gallic, Femish, and Brabantine Gold Coins 1330-1794 2011 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Peter Woodhead - London, 2011, hardback with dustwrapper; new in shrinkwrap. 1.07 kg, 25.5 x 19.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Paper Currencies of the Straits Settlements, Malaya, British North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei 1991 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Dr Chan Chin Cheung - Singapore, 1991, hardback with cloth covers, gilt blocking, 261 pp; new. 1.62 kg, 30.5 x 21.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.