Post Medieval Silver Thimble with Heart-Shaped Cartouche Flanked by Birds

Comprising monochrome gloss prints of NASA launches: an astronaut walking through a crowd of air force and navy personnel, endorsed 'NASA For Release February 22, 1962. NASA Photo no. 62-MA6-121. Cape Canaveral, FLA Aboard USS Randolph Astronaut John H. Glenn walks down the aircraft carrier's hangar deck following world orbital flight.'; rocket on launchpad in flames, endorsed 'Nasa Photo Unclassified 3-2-65 Nasa/Centaur. Cape Kennedy, FLA : 8:25 A.M. EST. March 2. 1966. The fifth experimental Atlas Centaur launch vehicle lifted off the pad, and the main stage prematurely cut off, causing the vehicle to fall back on the pad and explode.'; rocket leaving launchpad, endorsed 'U.S.Air Force Photo / Air Force Eastern T[est] Range / Photographic lLboratory Operated by [Y}CA. / P-66-75271 8/25/66 C[.]YA, Titan... Lift off of Titan ...Unclassified'; rocket on launchpad, endorsed 'NASA For Release: December 12, 1970 / Photo No. 70-H-1641 70-HC-1160 ... Kenya, Africa -- Italy to launch U.S. satellite - The first American satellite to be launched by another country will be placed in Earth orbit by a team of Italian space engineers operating from a mobile launch platform located in the Indian Ocean. The launch will take place off the coast of Kenya in East Africa, no earlier than December 12. The spacecraft is the Small Astronomy Satellite-A (SAS-A) 42 in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Explorer series. It is the first satellite equipped with sensitive experiments to detect high-energy X-ray sources in space, and is also known as the X-ray Explorer. Successful operation of the astronomy satellite will allow scientists to take the next giant step in astronomy -- the cataloguing of powerful X-ray sources both within and outside our galaxy, the Milky Way. During the first day of operation of its scientific instruments, the satellite is expected to collect more data than has been obtained with sounding rockets in the eight years since the science of X-ray astronomy was born.' 71 grams total, 25.3 x 20.4 - 25.3 x 20.3 cm



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

Comprising: an openwork fastener with a cross motif; a fastener with a Tudor rose; an openwork fastener with a six-petalled flower. 7.52 grams total, 34-39 mm



From the private collection of Graham Slater (1927-2024), Cambridge, UK; formed 1980s-1990s.

Carefully rendered bust of Christ facing left, crown of thorns resting on his curly hair, short beard and pained expression on his face; set in a gold mount with applied ropework collars, pin and catch on the reverse. 16.3 grams, 42 mm



Acquired on the European art market. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13404-257986.

It was believed that the scarlet flecks in the stone were the blood of Christ, hence its popular use for the subject of Christ throughout the Middle Ages until the 19th century.