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LOT 0485
Egyptian Mixed Bead Group
CIRCA 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
1/8 - 1 1/4 in. (248 grams total, 4-33 mm).
Comprising various types, composition, sizes and colours, including: glass; calcite; steatite; shell; obsidian; peridot; carnelian; pink limestone; faience and rock crystal; some examples taking zoomorphic and axe forms; some held in perspex collector boxes with inked inventory numbers; accompanied by a handwritten collector's label reading 'glass beads from the tombs near Joppa. 1897' and a more recent note handwritten in the lid of one presentation box: '4 glass beads from 'the tombs near Joppa' now in Tel Aviv-Yafo in Israel, collected in 1897 when part of Ottoman Empire. Gift from Miss C. Rawdin 1982'; also a faience baboon amulet. [29, No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Joppa, 1897.
The property of Mr and Mrs P. R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
With an old dated label.
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