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LOT 1832
Post Medieval Silver Jewellery and Other Item Group
19TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 - 2 1/8 in. (65 grams total, 15-54 mm).
Including a gold coronet badge, match case with hinged lid, heart-shaped pendant and other items. [18, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired since the 1970s.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Tudor Bronze Hook Fastener Group
16th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Group of hooked garment fasteners, mostly with openwork looped body. 31.4 grams total, 27-39 mm
Found near York, UK. -
Post Medieval Bronze Livery Button Collection
Circa 18th-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Mixed group of bronze buttons with heraldic, regimental and other detailing. 253 grams total, 9-31 mm
Found Hertfordshire, UK. -
Ethiopian Manuscript Page for Miracle of the Virgin Mary
Circa 1680 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
Vellum leaf with pricked guidelines for placement of two columns of red-ink and black-ink text in Ge'ez script with red detailing; recto with two columns of text above a polychrome painted miniature showing a nimbate Mary beside a recumbent bearded figure among buildings with a winged angel above; verso with twenty-two lines of text in two columns. 89 grams, 35.5 x 30 cm
Previously in the David Buxton collection (1910-2003), until the late 1990s.
The scene should represent the miracle of the Virgin Mary to Damianus the scribe: Damianus wrote the name of the Virgin Mary with gold and silver instead of with common black ink. The Virgin Mary appeared to Damianus on his death bed and promises to write his name upon a pillar of gold in the Kingdom of Heaven.
