Auction Highlights
-
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'.
-
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 45 - Latvian Collections - Anglo-Saxon and Later British Coins 1996 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £14
Tatjana Berga - Oxford, 1996, hardback with cloth covers, 78 pp; new. 537 grams, 25.5 x 19.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Search for Alexander - The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and Two Catalogues 1983-1995 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Catalogue Supplement - The Search for Alexander - 5 March to 10 July 1983, card covers, 48 pp; Sternberg Zürich - Antike Münzen - 30/31 October 1995 - card covers, 146 pp, 64 plates; 7/8 November 1994 - card covers, 132 pp, 56 plates. 1.4 kg total, 25 x 20 - 27.5 x 21 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Chalfont Hoard and Other Roman Coin Hoards 1992 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Roger Bland (ed.) - London, 1992, hardback with dustwrapper, 367 pp, 32 plates; new. 1.73 kg, 28.5 x 22.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Most Noble Order of the Garter - 650 Years 1999 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Peter J. Begent & Hubert Chesshyre - London, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper; new in shrinkwrap. 2.22 kg, 28.5 x 22.8 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Coins Are Like Songs - The Upper Canada Coppers, 1815-1841 2016 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Christopher Faulkner - London, 2016, hardback with dustwrapper, 418 pp; new. 1.6 kg, 25.5 x 20 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Public House Tokens in England and Wales c.1830 - c.1920 2004 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Yolanda C.S. Courtney - London, 2004, hardback with dustwrapper, 219 pp, 23 plates; new. 883 grams, 25 x 18 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Islamic Coins and Their Values, Volume 1: The Medieval Period 2015 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Tim Wilkes - London, 2015, hardback, 284 pp; new. 743 grams, 22.5 x 14.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 59 - The Norweb Collection - Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750 - Part VII - City of London 2007 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
R.W. Thompson & M.J. Dickinson - London, 2007, hardback with dustwrapper, 381 pp; new. 1.3 kg, 25.5 x 20 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Survey of the Coinage of the Seljuqs of Rum 2011 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Michael Broome - London, 2011, hardback with dustwrapper, 400 pp, 62 plates; new. 1.66 kg, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Anglo-Gallic Coins - Les: Monnaies Anglo-Françaises 1984 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
E.R. Duncan Elias - London, 1984, hardback, 263 pp; new. 806 grams, 24.7 x 17.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Typos IV - Die Goldprägung der gallischen Kaiser von Postumus bis Tetricus 1983 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Bernhard Schulte - Salzburg, 1983, hardback with dustwrapper; new in shrinkwrap. 647 grams, 25 x 19.3 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Qing Cash - Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication no. 37 2003 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
David Hartill - London, 2003, hardback with dustwrapper, 316 pp, 172 plates; new. 1.71 kg, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.