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LOT 2122
Cased Post Medieval 'Published' Clay Pipe and Bronze Tamper Collection
17TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
19 1/4 x 13 3/8 x 2 in. (3 kg total, 49 x 34 x 5 cm including case).
Collection of clay pipes mounted and labelled from 1580 through to 1930, with smokers' accessories (pipe tampers) in a glazed wooden display case; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.
PublishedBailey, G., Detector Finds, Witham, 1999, p.60-63 (item 20, hand holding a scroll).
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LOT 2122
Cased Post Medieval 'Published' Clay Pipe and Bronze Tamper Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,820
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Bactrian Style Alabaster Chalice
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
With squat, bell-shaped bowl, everted rim and tapering cylindrical stem. 1.93 kg, 25.5 cm
Ex London, UK, art market, 1990s. -
Bronze and Iron Statue Group
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Including a demon gripping his phallus and other types. 4.3 kg total, 21-31 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Post Medieval Silver and Bronze Love Token Collection
Circa 18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Mixed group comprising of mostly silver issue coins, each worn flat and coin bent into a double-curved 's' profile for use as a token of love. 27.65 grams total, 19-25mm.
Found on various UK sites since 1974. Property of an Essex collector.
The custom of giving a bent coin as a love-token is known from the 17th century in England. The coins were usually smoothed to obliterate the monarch’s head and then bent twice; sometimes they were engraved with initials or symbols such as hearts or knots. If the sweetheart accepted the youth's advances, she kept the token; if not, she disposed of the coin. The tradition is referred to in the children's rhyme 'There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence on a crooked stile.'
