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

Comprising: a curved tusk, a seedpod, a quill, a 24th Regiment 2nd Warwickshire badge and a 96th Regiment of Foot Glengarry badge. 130 grams total, 6.8-24 cm



Found Zululand, South Africa, 1999-2006. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.

Red cloth band with printed black hooked cross emblem on a white circular background. 9 grams, circumference: 42 cm



Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

A rare battlefield artefact, being the trigger assembly from a destroyed Zulu musket rifle, with loop for the carrying sling. 145 grams, 19.2 cm



Found by Zulu natives living at Khambula, South Africa, 1990s-early 2000s. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.

The battle resulted in a heavy defeat for the Zulus, who had been full of confidence from their earlier victories against the British at Isandlwana and Hlobane.

Illustrated hardcover with gilt titling, 384 pages with twelve black-and-white illustrations by W Parkinson. 844 grams, 19.3 x 14.5 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, lady.

The story explores the life of Clare Skymer, a boy whose mother dies in an earthquake, prompting a series of transformative events in his life as he navigates his childhood amid profound loss and connection to nature, delivering a poignant exploration of faith and spiritual growth.

The Water-Babies: a Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, hardcover with gilt titling, 330 pages with one hundred black-and-white illustrations by Linley Sambourne. 580 grams, 19.3 x 13.5 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, lady.

This is a children's novel written as part satire in support of the famous 'On the Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin.

Piriform bodied, painted with chevrons and other linear motifs; two loop handles to the equator, trumpet-shaped mouth. 4.05 kg, 36 cm high



Ex Hong Kong gentleman's collection.

A hollow-form figure of a crouching male with a protruding round belly and bendy legs, mature age indicated by a deeply grooved forehead. 314 grams, 12.8 cm



Ex West Country collection, 1990s.

With a conical body and an everted rim, shallow basal ring. 197 grams, 14.3 cm



Ex Hong Kong gentleman's collection.

Hollow to the underside, seated Buddha with legs crossed, on a lotus flower base with bumpa vessel cradled in his lap; stamped signature to underside. 2.03 kg, 21 cm



Private collection, UK.

With a high-relief figure of a robed male monk, with painted detailing. 1.6 kg, 20.5 cm



Ex Hong Kong collection, 1980 onwards.

Budai was a 10th-century monk, known for his laughing face and round stomach, and was named after the cloth sack that he carried under his arm. Buddhists believe him to be the incarnation of Maitreya, the future Buddha, who helps common people in the mortal world.

Provincial footed jar with a tapering, bulbous profile and a narrow, raised rim, featuring dense floral motifs. 1.36 kg, 18.5 cm wide



Ex Hong Kong gentleman's collection.

Modelled armoured and triumphantly trampling a creature beneath his feet, his helmet topped with a fierce-looking mythical bird, his right arm raised with clenched fist, the left placed defiantly on his hip; polygonal base below; remains of polychrome pigmentation. 4.35 kg, 54 cm high



From Maa Oriental Gallery, Bath, UK; and a West Country collection, 1990-2000.