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LOT 0417
Egyptian Cylinder Seal with Cartouche of Ramesses II
NEW KINGDOM, 19TH DYNASTY 1304-1237 B.C.
1 in. (5.01 grams, 25 mm).
With crisp detail of crosshatched panels, hieroglyphic text in one and a cartouche in the other with the regnal name of Ramesses II (User-Maat-Re-setep-en-Re), supplied with a museum-quality impression. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceGustave Mustaki, Alexandria, Egypt; exported from Egypt to the UK c.1950.
Elsa McLellan, UK; by descent from the above.
Private collection, London, UK; by descent from the above.
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LOT 0417
Egyptian Cylinder Seal with Cartouche of Ramesses II
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
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Lieutenant Goodman served in the 4th Battalion Welsh Regiment during World War I and saw action in Palestine during the capture of Bethlehem, (for which he won an MC). After the war, he setup a business selling Fordson trucks and tractors in Alexandria, Egypt. A keen antiquarian, he collected ancient objects during his time in Alexandria and when he visited the pyramids at Giza. After his first marriage failed, he returned to the UK in the early 1930s. On his death in 1959 he passed his small collection of Egyptian objects on to his second wife, Ruby Goodman. On Ruby’s death in 1994, they were left to their second daughter, Rosemary Johnson, (née Goodman), and are currently in the possession of her son. -
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