Egyptian Style Stone Bead Necklace String

Each an openwork trefoil handle and disc base; motifs comprising 'IW between asterisks', 'ID'flanking a plant, 'IW' flanking a plant, 'LI' retrograde) flanking a plant, each supplied with an impression. 15.44 grams total, 22-28 mm



Found Romney Marsh area, Kent, 1990-2015. Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector.

Comprising: 'The Shadow of Opposition' etching, published 31 March 1788 by Thomas Cornell, monogrammed in the plate 'JS f', a satire on the Foxite Opposition, with the motto 'Stat Magni Nominis Umbra' and the verses 'Each Patriots Speech another Speech affords / The C—ns have their Echo in the L—ds'; 'The Managers in Distress, etching, published 11 April 1788 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street, monogrammed in the plate 'JS f' a satire on Burke, Fox and the other managers of the Warren Hastings impeachment, shown falling from a collapsing bridge: 'D—n the Piers they won't support us', punning on the House of Lords 'Peers'; both mounted. 282 grams total, 32.5 x 32 - 35 x 30 cm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Harwich, UK, collector.

Sayers was one of the leading political caricaturists of the 1780s, a supporter of Pitt, and best known for his attacks on Fox and the Hastings prosecution. Both prints were published by Thomas Cornell, Sayers's regular publisher, within a fortnight of each other during the early months of the Hastings trial.

Bifacial pendant with integral loop and intertwined decoration. 18.05 grams, 39 mm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Nottinghamshire, UK, gentleman.