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LOT 0698
Roman Glass Unguentarium with Waves
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (62.4 grams, 10.2 cm).
With bulbous flat-bottomed base, tall neck and rolled everted rim applied trail zigzag handles to each side.
ProvenanceEx property of a late Japanese collector, 1970-2000s.
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LOT 0698
Roman Glass Unguentarium with Waves
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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Roman Bronze Signet Ring with Hare Motif
3rd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
With slightly upturned shoulders, disc bezel with incuse figure of a hare. 4.65 grams, 24.33 mm overall, 20.11 x 17.64 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q 1/2, USA 8 1/4, Europe 18.12, Japan 17)
Acquired from the Cumberland Coin Show in 1998. From the personal collection of a West London, UK, gentleman. -
Roman to Post Medieval Artefact Group
1st-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Including a military cap badge, lead weight, buckle and belt fittings, milled coins and other items. 955 grams total, 9-74 mm
Found Suffolk, UK. -
Antiquarian Research and Photograph Albums of Various Roman Sites in Britain
1960s-1980s A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Comprising six albums: a photo album with pictures from Calleva Atrebatum, Roman Silchester in Hampshire, England, showing categorised images of artefacts and displays from Reading museum with handwritten information labels, including mosaics, jewellery, beads, pottery, tiles and other artefacts; a photo album with images from Tullie House Museum showing pictures of oil lamps, oil lamps, pottery, some with handwritten information labels, also containing images from Colchester Castle Museum comprising images of pottery, Samian ware moulds, and other artefacts, and images from Wroxeter Roman city, pictures of six stones from the Roman camp at Old Penrith, pictures from Newcastle Museum, and from Great Witcombe villa in Gloucestershire; an album with postcards and printed information cards from Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary fort south of Hadrian's Wall showing life and costumes during Roman occupation; another album with photographs from Corbridge, a Roman town south of Hadrian's Wall, pictures taken at Aldborough Roman town, and pictures from Yorkshire Museum in York; an album containing black-and-white images of mainly Roman and Byzantine coins; a scrap book with labelled pictures and postcards from Chedworth Roman Villa, Chesters Roman Fort in Northumberland, Housesteads Roman Fort, antiquities in Chesters Museum, Hadrian's Wall area, Aesica (Great Chesters), Vindolanda, and miscellaneous pictures of historic places and artefacts. 12.9 kg total, 26.5 x 28.5 - 33.5 x 29 cm
From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK. He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.
