Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History, Stamps & Coins

Comprising a long single-edged iron blade set in a short hexagonal-section bronze handle with a dog-head finial. 29.2 grams, 16.5 cm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

D-section hoop with expanding shoulders, red stone intaglio with an altar and a nude male figure holding a branch. 10.88 grams, 24.12 mm overall, 18.25 x 15.48 mm internal diameter (approximate size British J 1/2, USA 5, Europe 9.32, Japan 9)



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Comprising: a green glass intaglio; a red garnet carbuncle with a quiver and a bow; an onyx(?) intaglio with a profile bust; a small round intaglio with a lion; a red jasper intaglio with a stylised animal on a baseline. 2.55 grams total, 7-15 mm



UK private collection assembled 1970s-90s, and thence to the liquidated state of above.

Matched pair, each comprising a leaf plaque on a triangular band with three loops, each with a round-section tubular ribbed shaft with blue and green glass beads; hook closure to the reverse. 7.02 grams total, 38 mm each



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Flattened conical bezel with incuse motif to the apex, lion standing with raised tail and head turned towards the rear. 4.22 grams, 23.66 mm overall, 16.12 mm internal diameter (approximate size British J 1/2, USA 5, Europe 9.32, Japan 9)



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Ellipsoid in plan with chamfered sides, intaglio scene with soldier or gladiator standing with a spear, figure to his rear holding a wreath above his head; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 2.18 grams, 19 mm



Ex London, UK, based collection, 1990s. Accompanied by a previously illustrated catalogue card with provenance.

Biconvex in section with intaglio figure of Victory or Nemesis, winged and wearing a flounced robe; supplied with an impression. 0.56 grams, 15 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Hollow-formed with a later inset cabochon to the bezel. 3.11 grams, 21.73 mm overall, 16.44 x 14.07 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I, USA 4 1/2, Europe 7.44, Japan 7)



Private collection, 1990s-early 2000s.

Transparent oval intaglio with an engraved image of Mercury standing and facing right, holding a caduceus and a marsupium. 0.63 grams, 12 mm



Ex private North German collection. with Gorny & Mosch, Munich, Auction 145, 14 December 2005, no.238.

With a tapering rectangular shaft with applied low-relief male genitalia and incised wine leaves, a finial formed as a crowned youthful male head with an attachment loop to the top; the lower end with an H-shaped ward. 56.7 grams, 10.9 cm



Property of a European gentleman, acquired from the estate of a London collector (formed before 2000).

With impression to the reverse of the laths to which it was attached; prepared face with chestnut-red pigment; collector's inked findspot legend 'Ostia 9'56'. 284 grams, 11.6 cm



Found Ostia, 1956(?) From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.

Modelled in the round as a lion-skin draped over a tree trunk with the head resting on the opposite side and flanked by the front paws, a teardrop-shaped plaque above. 19.87 grams, 29 mm



with H.A.C. AG, Basel, until 1999.