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 - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum - Volume XIII - The Collection of the Society of Antiquaries Newcastle Upon Tyne 2005 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Andrew Meadows & Roderick Williams - Oxford, 2005, hardback with cloth covers, 48 plates; new. 765 grams, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Medals of Dishonour 2009 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Philip Attwood & Felicity Powell - London, 2009, card covers, 136 pp; new. 725 grams, 27.7 x 23.2 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 33 - The John G. Brooker Collection - Coins of Charles I (1625-1649) 1984 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
J.J. North & P.J. Preston-Morley - Oxford, 1984, hardback with cloth covers, 69 pp, 130 plates; new. 1.28 kg, 25.4 x 19.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Order of the British Empire 1996 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Peter Galloway - London, 1996, hardback with dustwrapper, 188 pp, 24 plates; new. 1.26 kg, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Byzantine and Early Medieval Western European Coins in the Hunter Coin Cabinet, University of Glasgow 1998 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
J.D. Bateson & I.G. Campbell - London, 1998, hardback with dustwrapper, 180 pp, 29 plates; new. 796 grams, 25.5 x 16 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Israel Museum: Egypt Vol III The Mamluks 1248-1517 2011 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Issa M. Baidoun - Trieste, 2011, hardback, 205 pp; new. 1.1 kg, 30.3 x 21.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Dictionary of English Numismatic Terms 2014 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Harrington E. Manville - London, 2014, hardback with dustwrapper, 301 pp; new. 1.19 kg, 30.3 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Coinage of the Bombay Presidency - A Study of the Records of the EIC 2019 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Paul Stevens - London, 2019, hardback, 368 pp; new. 1.3 kg, 25.5 x 19.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 37 - Polish Museums - Anglo-Saxon and later medieval British Coins 1987 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £14
Andrzej Mikołajczyk - Oxford, 1987, hardback with cloth covers, 78 pp; new. 405 grams, 25.3 x 19.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Currencies of the Anglo-Norman Isles 1984 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
A.L.T. McCammon - London, 1984, hardback, 365 pp; new. 889 grams, 24.5 x 17 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Dabuyid Ispahbads and Early 'Abbasid Governors of Tabaristan: History and Numismatics 2004 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Hodge Mehdi Malek - London, 2004, hardback with dustwrapper, 185 pp, 37 plates; new. 1.14 kg, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - English Coins 1180-1551 2009 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Lord Stewartby - London, 2009, hardback with dustwrapper, 571 pp, 39 plates; new. 1.84 kg, 27 x 18.3 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.