Railwayana

Dated 1911 A.D. Second coinage. Obv: engraved with 'ANTICIPATION / MARCH 16TH / 1911' over profile bust with GEORGIVS V DEI GRA BRITT OMN REX lege...

1956-1991 A.D. Jean-Philippe Lauer - Saqqara: The Royal Cemetery of Memphis. Excavations and Discoveries since 1850 - London, 1976, hardback with ...

1st-2nd century A.D. Including sherds of rim and base with inked accession numbers; some with impressed stamps; inked collector's notes including ...

Pliocene Period, circa 5.2-2.5 million years B.P. A Carcharocles megalodon tooth displaying good polished enamel. 150 grams, 10 cm (4 in.). Fro...

1st century A.D. With flat base and central boss, flared rim, incised rings to the inner face. Cf. Tassinari, S., La Vaisselle de Bronze, Romaine ...

12th-11th century B.C. With heavily ridged and tapering blade, short collared shaft and a square-section tapering tang bent at the tip. Cf. Khoras...

Dated 1923 A.D. World War I, 1918-1933. Obv: Krupp Works factory workers surround a 'swearing hand' elevated above them on a stick; with right arm...

1948-1973 A.D. Eighteen volumes comprising: Vol 34 (December 1948); 42-46 (December 1956-December 1960); 48-59 (December 1962-August 1973); all ca...

Late 3rd millennium B.C. Haematite with the weather and storm god Adad standing of his symbol animal (the bull), holding in his left hand the ligh...

Fell 1516 A.D., discovered 1958 A.D. A nickel iron meteorite (111CD) with a composition of 92.35% iron and 6.96% nickel. 36 grams, 48 mm (1 7/8 i...

2nd millennium B.C. Black stone with a figure wearing a long robe and horned cap, holding a sceptre, other hand raised in greeting to a central ma...

14th century A.D. Piriform body with vertical bands of pellets and roundels, knop finial, tiered and domed filler-hole, intended to be filled with...

Late 2nd millennium B.C. With a narrow neck and rounded bill-shaped blade, rounded wings to the socket and square-headed stud behind. Cf. Gorelik,...

11th century A.D. Comprising: a tongue-shaped mount of Williams's Class A Type II with pierced trefoil final, high-relief wolf in profile with hea...

19th-16th century B.C. Haematite with a standing naked female facing frontally, a male worshipper wearing long robes and cap, hands raised in pray...

364-375 A.D. Lyons mint. Obv: DN VALENTI-NIANVS PA, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right. Rev: VOTI V MVLT (sic) in four lines within wrea...

Late 3rd millennium B.C. With swept blade, large socket with shallow raised circumferential rib and a vertical rib to the rear. For similar exampl...

Circa 900-600 B.C. With bearded male between winged horses; accompanied by an old scholarly note, written and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Profess...

1st century A.D. Comprising four curved sherds of burnished redware with carinated profile and scrolled tendrils in low-relief with rosettes and p...

Late 2nd-early 1st millennium B.C. A substantial leaf-shaped blade with raised midrib extending to a short tang, ribbed fullers with curved ends e...

Circa 6th-2nd century B.C. Right foot from a statue, hollow-formed and modelled in naturalistic style, with toes slightly curled; with surface dep...

1970-2009 A.D. John W. Mussell - The Banknote Yearbook (6th Edition) - 2009, hardback, 512 pp, colour images; Standard Catalogue of British Coins ...

2nd-1st millennium B.C. Modelled in the round, the stag standing with legs firmly set, ears and antlers carefully modelled; mounted on a custom-ma...

Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P. D-shaped scraper with waxy surface; with an old inked inscription: '1.1338 / Twydall'. The Twydall f...

Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P. Triangular burin; with an old inked inscription: '4.FB.1116.A / Twydall'. The Twydall finds are disc...

2nd millennium B.C. Pillow-shaped clay tablet with cuneiform text to both broad faces; chipped. Cf. MacGregor, N., A History of the World in 100 O...

1960-2001 A.D. Bika Reed - Rebel in the Soul: A Sacred Text of Ancient Egypt - London, 1978, card covers,141 pp; sally B. Johnson - Cobra Goddesse...

Circa 6th-8th century A.D. Tongue-shaped pendant with integral loop, obverse with stylised figure of a horseman spearing a creature, lion below an...

6th century A.D. Piriform in profile with two thick lug handles to the shoulder, obverse with low-relief facing figure holding a large cross and o...

Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C. Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the S...

Pre-Classic Period, circa 1200-500 B.C. Crouching figure with exaggerated facial features, pierced for suspension; mounted on a square stand with ...

1961-1999 A.D. Stuart Piggott (ed.) - The Dawn of Civilization - London, 1961, hardback, 404 pp; Joanne Jessop - the X-Ray Picture Book of Big Bui...

18th century A.D. With 40mm (1½) turn-off barrel, box-lock with sliding safety marked 'CLARK' left and 'LONDON' right; fitted with plain wood butt...

1135-1154 A.D. Local and irregular issues of the Civil War, Flag / Ornaments type of York. Obv: + stief-n-[e r], crowned and draped bust right, ho...

2nd-1st millennium B.C. Triangular in plan, terminating in an exaggerated curving point; the outer face pierced towards the top and with a raised ...

Circa 1st millennium B.C. With curved 'horns' projecting on either side at the top of waisted grip, blade with flat mid-rib. Cf. Christie's, The A...

1958-1977 A.D. Julian Munby & Martin Henig - Roman Life and Art in Britain - Part i. BAR 41(i) - Oxford, 1977, card covers, 215 pp; Part ii. BAR 4...

13th-14th century A.D. Formed as a cross-crosslet on a square sheet plaque, the symbol of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, with the remains of a...

Early 2nd millennium B.C. Haematite with a robed figure with beard and cap facing a robed female(?) with hands raised, rosette between their faces...

1901-2004 A.D. R.O. Faulkner (trans.) - Book of the Dead - London, 1972, hardback with dustwrapper, 192 pp; Ramses Saleem - The Egyptian Book of L...

1986-2011 A.D. Emily Teeter (ed.) - Before the Pyramids - Chicago, 2011, card covers, 288 pp; Jaromir Malek - In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Egypt...

Roman, 3rd-4th century A.D. or later. The banded glass imitating banded agate; intaglio scene composed of a crowned figure standing right, holding...

1979-1996. Nicholas Reeves - The Complete Tutankhamun: The King. The Tomb. The Royal Treasure - London, 1990, hardback with dustwrapper, 224 pp; N...

1080-1083 A.D. BMC type vii. Obv: profile bust right with sceptre with [+PILLELM] REX legend. Rev: cross with annulet centre and voided trefoils t...

3rd-5th century A.D. Comprising: a leaf-shaped bone spatula with pointed tang; stylus with twisted grip and median baluster, rectangular head with...

1978-2003 A.D. Bika Reed (trans.) - Rebel in the Soul: A Sacred Text of Ancient Egypt - London, 1978, card covers, 143 pp; Lucie Lamy - New Light ...

Printed 1510 A.D. Page of a rag-paper bible with text printed in two columns and with marginal notes to both sides; portion of Book of Jeremiah; p...

6th century B.C. Group comprising: cast 'coins' or currency pieces in the form of a bifacial dolphin. Sear 1684. 16.86 grams total, 16-27 mm. . ...

Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P. Triangular scraper; with an old inked inscription: '4.HS.1082.A / Twydall'. The Twydall finds are di...

1st-4th century A.D. Comprising a pierced bulb finial and tapering shank with horizontal bands, ribbed median section and flat panel with perpendi...

1954-1992 A.D. Richard Wilkinson - Reading Egyptian Art - London, 1992, hardback with dustwrapper, 224 pp; Bika Reed - The Field of Transformation...

Khambula, 29 March 1879 A.D. Comprising: a Martini-Henry brass cartridge case with firing mark to the base; three lead heads of bullets fired from...

2nd millennium B.C. Pillow-shaped clay tablet with cuneiform text to one broad face and one edge; chipped. Cf. MacGregor, N., A History of the Wor...

1st century A.D. Substantial cast cupola with socket to the apex; possibly from a field artillery piece. See Marsden, E.A., Greek and Roman Artill...

Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P. Triangular-section point with cortex remaining; with an old inked inscription: '8.HC.1032.C / Twydal...

Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P. Irregular-shaped flint tool with some cortex remaining; with an old inked inscription: '1802 / Twyda...

1981-1998 A.D. M. Oldfield Howey - The Cat in Mysteries of Religion and Magic - Rutland, 1981, hardback with dustwrapper, 253 pp; Jaromir Malek - ...

1st-4th century A.D. Mixed group of sherds, many with inked reference number, and collector's display cards including 'Sherd of calcite gritted bo...

Devensian Period, circa 110,000-12,000 years B.P. A well-preserved lower jaw section from Coelodonta antiquitatis with four molars. 3 kg, 52 cm (...

1980-2004 A.D. Nicholas Reeves - Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries - London, 2000, hardback with dustwrapper, 255 pp; Eugen Strouhal - Life in ...