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 - Zahir-uddin Muhammad Babur, A Numismatic Study 1995 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Aman ur Rahman - Karachi, 2005, hardback with dustwrapper, 131 pp, limited edition; new. 990 grams, 30.2 x 22 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): £52
Tim Wilkes - Oxford, 2015, hardback, 285 pp; new. 743 grams, 22.5 x 14.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Tokens of the Industrial Revolution - Foreign Silver Coins Countermarked for use in Great Britain, c.1787-1828 2001 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
H.E. Manville - London, 2001, hardback with dustwrapper, 307 pp, 55 plates; new. 1.61 kg, 28.2 x 20.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - British Gallantry Awards 1981 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
P E Abbott & J M A Tamplin - London, 1981, hardback with dustwrapper, 316 pp; new. 1.32 kg, 30.5 x 21.6 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Lustrous Images from the Enlightenment, The Medals of the Dassiers of Geneva 2010 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
William Eisler - Geneva, 2010, hardback with dustwrapper; new in shrinkwrap. 1.6 kg, 28.7 x 24.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Coin Hoards from Roman Britain Volume XI 2002 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Richard Abdy, Ian Leins & Jonathan Williams - London, 2002, hardback with dustwrapper, 233 pp, 10 plates; new. 1.19 kg, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Medallic Record of the Jacobite Movement 1988 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Neol Woolf - London, 1988, card covers, 160 pp; new. 629 grams, 30 x 21 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Islamic Mints, Volumes I - III 2009 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Diler, Ö. - Istanbul, 2009, card covers, 1793 pp; new. 6 kg total, 30.6 x 21.8 cm each
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Herbert Schneider Collection Volume Two - English Gold Coins 1603-20th century 2002 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Peter Woodhead - London, 2002, hardback with dustwrapper; new in shrinkwrap. 1.23 kg, 25.5 x 20 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 16 - Collection of Ancient British, Romano-British and English Coins 1971 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
C.E. Bunt, F. Elmore Jones & Commander R.P. Mack - London, 1971, hardback with dustwrapper, 88 pp; new. 511 grams, 25.3 x 19.2 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Magic Coins of Java, Bali and the Malay Peninsula 1999 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Joe Cribb - London, 1999, hardback; new in shrinkwrap. 1.22 kg, 28.5 x 22.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 29 - Merseyside County Museums - Ancient British Issues and later Coins from English, Irish and Scottish mints to 1279 and Associated Foreign Coins 1982 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Margaret Warhurst - Oxford, 1982, hardback with cloth covers, 132 pp; new. 690 grams, 25.2 x 19.6 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.