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LOT 1884
Post Medieval Trench Art Ring
DATED 1918 A.D.
3/4 in. (2.41 grams, 20.80 mm overall, 19.21 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R, USA 8 1/2, Europe 18 3/4, Japan 18)).
Composed of a flat-section hoop with expanded bezel, shallow inscribed volute hearts and geometric motifs to the shoulders, '1918' to centre. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
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Most with lozenge-section bodies, the head of varying sizes. 178 grams total, 50-66 mm
Found Berkshire, UK.
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Post Medieval Glazed Ceramic Tile Group
17th-18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Comprising two designs in relief including three horses in an enclosure and two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.3 kg total, 10 x 9 - 10.5 x 9.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.
The tile production increases in the second half of the sixteenth century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area. -
Post Medieval 'Thames' Bronze Artefact Collection
Circa 17th-18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Comprising: a decorative lock escutcheon, bodkin; seal ring bearing pricked dot design to bezel and pipe tamper to the hoop; ring with screw-fitted pipe tamper. 60.6 grams total, 4.3-12.5 cm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
