Cabinet of Curiosities Part I: Through Time & Space

BABYLONIAN TERRACOTTA STATUETTE OF THE GOD EA (THE GREAT INTELLECT),circa 2000 B.C., excavated in Iraq, 13.5cm high, presented on stand bearing pl...

MAYAN POTTERY FLOWER/HERB VASE,circa 1450 A.D., representing the Mayan deity of Spring, 9cm high, with Certificate of AuthenticityProvenance: Patr...

ANCIENT SYRIAN TERRACOTTA IDOL FIGURE,circa 8th/7th century B.C., excavated in Syria, 13.5cm high, with stand and Certificate of AuthenticityProve...

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE USHABTI,23rd-26th Dynasty, circa 940-664 B.C., 11.5cm high, with Certificate of AuthenticityProvenance: Patrick Campbell,...

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE REIS USHABTI,26th Dynasty, circa 664-525 B.C., 9cm high, with Certificate of Authenticity. 'Reis' is the name given to th...

PHOENICIAN EARTHENWARE FIGURE OF THE MOON GODDESS TANIT,circa 500 B.C., excavated from a Phoenician ship off the coast of Haifa, Israel in 1970, 1...

TWO ANCIENT BABYLONIAN DEITY FIGURES,the first depicting the sun god Shamesh, 14.5cm high, the second the god of wisdom Inki, both with bases and ...

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SAITE PERIOD FAIENCE USHABTI,26th Dynasty, circa 664-525 B.C., the body inscribed with six horizontal lines of hieroglyphs from t...

LATE SYRO-HITTITE IDOL OF THE EGYPTIAN GOD HORUS,circa 1000-800 B.C., modelled after the falcon-headed deity this idol was believed to protect the...

ANCIENT BABYLONIAN VOTIVE TERRACOTTA STATUE,depicting the love goddess Ishtar (Astarte), circa 1550-1200 B.C., excavated in Iraq, 13cm high, with ...

ANCIENT GREEK TERRACOTTA BLACK FIGURE LEKYTHOS,circa early 5th century B. C., decorated with a warrior, likely Achilles, with attendants preparing...

GROUP OF FIVE ANCIENT ROMAN TERRACOTTA OIL LAMPS,circa 2nd/3rd century A.D., each approximately 8cm long, with Certificate of AuthenticityProvenan...

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE SITULA,early Ptolemaic Period, circa 4th/3rd century B.C., decorated in low relief with a frieze of deities and symbols in...

ROMAN NORTH AFRICAN PARTIAL BUST OF A GODDESS,circa 4th/5th century A.D., possibly a late depiction of the ancient Carthaginian deity Ba'Alat with...

SMALL ANCIENT ROMAN TERRACOTTA BUST OF THE GODDESS VESTA,circa 2nd/3rd century A.D., excavated in Italy, 6cm high, with stand and Certificate of A...

RARE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ROYAL STEATITE SCARAB,Late New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1600-1500 B.C., engraved to the base with cartouche for Men-Khep...

ANCIENT CELTIC BRONZE HEAD AMULET,circa 200 B.C., excavated in County Durham, 3.5cm high, with stand and Certificate of Authenticity; such amulets...

ANCIENT MINOAN TERRACOTTA BULL HEAD,circa 1500 B.C., 4cm long, together with a rare late Minoan bronze talisman modelled as the horns of a bull, c...

RARE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC 'LUCKY HAND' PENDANT,circa 10th-11th century A.D., cast with the thumb and third finger touching and worn as protection agai...

THREE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN AMULETS,the first modelled as a clenched fist, 26th Dynasty, circa 664 B.C., 1.5cm long, the second a scarab, 23rd-26th Dyn...

SMALL VIKING CARVED BONE CHARM/AMULET OF ODIN,circa 9th century A.D., 2.3cm long, on modern chain, with Certificate of AuthenticityProvenance: Pat...

ANCIENT SUMERIAN ZOOMORPHIC AMULET,circa 3000 B.C., 5.5cm high, with Certificate of Authenticity; the Sumerians widely used animal figures to repr...

NEO-BABYLONIAN CARVED CHALCEDONY 'MAGICAL STONE' SEAL,circa 700-500 B.C., the base finely engraved with the scene of a standing bearded figure, li...

TWO SMALL ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZES,both 26th-27th Dynasty, circa 664-545 B.C., the first a rare amulet cast as a calf's hoof, 3cm long, the second...

ANCIENT PERSIAN BEAR'S HEAD AMULET,circa 400 B.C., 2.7cm long, on modern cord, with Certificate of AuthenticityProvenance: Patrick Campbell, Ancie...

ANCIENT PERSIAN BLACK STONE AMULET,circa 400 B.C., with carved 'magical' symbols or script to both sides, 2cm x 2cm, together with a smaller amule...

MAYAN POTTERY 'HARVEST HEAD' AMULET,circa 1350-1400 A.D., found in Yucantan, Mexico, 6cm x 6.5cm, with Certificate of AuthenticityProvenance: Patr...

BYZANTINE 'TRUE CROSS' PILGRIM TOKEN,7th century A.D., stamped with two figures beneath cross to obverse, 2.2cm diameter, with Certificate of Auth...

RARE BRONZE 'PLANETARY POWER' BRONZE RING,circa 13th-14th century A.D., excavated in Palestine, the platform engraved with the Table of Saturn bea...

TWO TALISMANIC 'POWER' RINGS,the first an Islamic example in bronze, circa 10th/11th century A.D., excavated in Syria, the platform with engraved ...

ANCIENT TALISMANIC 'POWER' RING,circa 2nd/3rd century A.D., excavated in Italy but attributed to the Persian Zoroastrian tradition, the platform e...

MEDIEVAL HOLY LAND ROSARY RING,circa 13th century A.D., excavated in Palestine, with four projections for the saying of 'Ave Maria' by the pilgrim...

LARGE AND RARE INCLUDED AMBER PENDANT,approximately 35-50 million years old, of 'heart' form, displaying numerous insect inclusions, with pierced ...

CHINESE MING DYNASTY BLACK GLAZED POTTERY JAR,with note stating excavation from a South China Seas wreck in 1993, 9cm high, together with a Chines...

MYCENAEAN POTTERY TWIN-HANDLED CUP,with simple linear decoration, 15cm wide, together with further early pottery comprising a large jug, small jug...

THREE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE USHABTI,circa 940-644 B.C., one with partially extant carved heirogylphs to body, the largest 11.5cm high (3) ...[...

LITERATURE - NATURAL HISTORY,fourteen volumes including Darwin (C.) The Origin of Species and Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, Bristow (H.W.) ...

LITERATURE - PALAEONTOLOGY,twelve volumes including Cowper Reed (F.R.) The Lower Palaeozoic Trilobites of the Girvan District Ayrshire, Taylor (J....

LITERATURE - GEOLOGY, LYELL (C.),nine volumes including Antiquity of Man (1873), Principles of Geology (numerous, earliest 1847), and Manual of El...

LITERATURE - GEOLOGY,twenty-five volumes including Murchison (R.I.) Siluria: A History of the Oldest Rocks in the British Isles (1867), Fairholme ...

LITERATURE - NATURAL HISTORY,over twenty nineteenth century and later volumes including Buckland (W.) Bridgewater Treatises (Treatise VI) (1837), ...

LITERATURE - NATURAL HISTORY,Miller (H.), Works, vols I-XIII., pub. William P. Nimmo, Edinburgh 1869-70, comprising My Schools and School-Masters,...

LITERATURE - NATURAL HISTORY,sixteen volumes including Ogilvie-Grant (W.R.) A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds (two vols.), three further Lloyd's Natur...

EGYPTIAN ALABASTER (CALCITE) SHABTI,after the antique, depicted mummiform, wearing wig with arms crossed, with bands of carved script, 17.5cm high...

EGYPTIAN FAIENCE USHABTI,mummiform with five bands of script to body, 16cm high ...[more]

TWO EGYPTIAN FAIENCE USHABTI,both mummiform, 13cm high (2) ...[more]

THREE EGYPTIAN USHABTI,mummiform, the tallest 12.5cm high (3) ...[more]

EGYPTIAN POTTERY SHABTI,mummiform, 21cm high ...[more]

FOUR EGYPTIAN POTTRY USHABTI,all mummiform with various vertical or horizontal bands of heiroglyphs, two with central cartouches, 14cm high (4) ....

EGYPTIAN CARVED GREEN HARDSTONE HEART SCARAB,after the antique, with heiroglyphs to base, drilled holes to both ends, 9.7cm long, together with a...

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN EYE OF HORUS FAIENCE AMULET,Third Intermediate Period, circa 955-750 B.C., polychome decorated, 3cm x 3.3cm, on stand, together w...

UNUSUAL ANCIENT ROMAN POTTERY LAMP,circa 2nd-4th century A.D., moulded as a male face with hole to each end of the three-pronged beard, 10cm long,...

ANCIENT ROMAN MOSAIC FLOOR FRAGMENT,circa 3rd century A.D., 6cm x 7.5cm, 5cm high ...[more]

RHACOLEPIS BUCCALIS FISH FOSSIL,circa 120 million years old, found in the Lower Cretaceous of the Chapada do Araripe, North-East Brazil, displayin...

PURPORTED RELIC OF NELSON'S TRAFALGAR FLAGSHIP H.M.S VICTORY,accompanied by a letter suggesting this piece to be part of a rigging pole or cannon ...

RUSSIAN CAST METAL CRUCIFIX,purportedly ex-W. F. Greenwood & Sons of Harrogate, 11cm long, together with a white metal Coptic cross pendant, likel...

EGYPTIAN ROUND TOPPED STONE STELA,after the antique, carved with a winged sun above four bands of heiroglyphs, 11.5 x 9cmThe material feels compos...

LOT OF SIX ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SCARAB SEALS,the largest 3cm long (6) ...[more]

TWO SMALL ANCIENT EGYPTIAN AMULET FIGURES,the first in bronze or a similar alloy depicting the dwarf god Ptah, on later socle base, 5cm high overa...

LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE FIN WHALE (BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS) DORSAL VERTEBRA,19th century, 37cm high, 35cm high, presented on a slate baseFootnote: The ...