LOT 4149
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 1/3 Shekel. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1100 BC.
Bronze weight in the shape of a bird or duck. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.168, 173 (1/2 qedet). Condition as seen.(2.85gr, 19mm x 7mm.).
ProvenanceEx S collection, London, UK, deceased; formed 1970s-1990s.
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LOT 4149
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 1/3 Shekel.
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
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Byzantine Square Bronze Commercial Weight of Two Unciae. Circa 5th-7th century AD.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Engraved in outline (and inlaid with silver) large cross between Γᴑ B; all within wreath / Blank. Bendall, Byzantine Weights 71. 53.20gr, 31mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in 1993. Private collection, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Byzantine Square Bronze Commercial Weight of Two Unciae. Circa 4th-5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Facade of church shaped relic with three sections each surmounted by cross (inlaid in silver) and divided in two departments engraved with I N and decorations; all standing on four bases / Blank. Not in the standard references but cf. Bendall, Byzantine Weights 55. 45.56gr, 29mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Africa. Ashanti. Lot of Five [5] Brass Gold-Dust Weights. 19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Various standards. 58.41gr total.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
