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Lot 1504
Steiff - Ltd Edition Centenary Musical Bear for Harrods. White Tag 65314, Number 1771/2000 Musical Movement Plays ' The Anniversary Waltz ' Dark Green Mohair, Silk Paisley Tie Complete Steiff Harrods Pin + Swing Label and Certificates of Authenticity. Mint Condition, Never Been out of Box, Box Near Mint Condition.
Lot 1505
Steiff - Ltd Edition and Numbered White Musical Mohair Bear - Made for Harrods ' Edwardian Opera Bear ' White Tag 653131. Number 1683 - 2000. Signed to Foot In Ink J.R.Junginger. Features White Tag, Silk Cape, Music Plays A. L. Webbers ' All I Ask of You ' Complete with Swing Label, Gold Button. Mint Condition - Never Been Out of Box. With Certificates and Box. All In Nr Mint Condition.
Lot 1506
Steiff Ltd Edition Genuine Mohair Teddy Bear. Date 1998 ' Dominic ' 652844 Numbers 154 of 1,500. Features Black Mohair and has Dark Red Paw Soles, Stitched Nose and Mouth, In Dark Red - White Bow, Traditional Squeaker. 10 Inches Tall. Mint Condition. Original Box and Certificate of Authenticity.
Lot 178
Old Monopoly Set Doll Teddy Bear and Briatins Hunt and Show Jumping Figures: 1950s Monopoly Set with five Metal pieces and wooden Hotels and House, in original box with board (unchecked), unboxed metal Britains Huntsman on white horse and plastic Show jumper on a white horse, Tri-ang Pedigree undressed hard plastic talking doll (not working), blue opening eyes, brown wig and open mouth with two teeth and 1940s unmarked Teddy Bear , with repairs and damage, P-F, box F (6)
Lot 189
Tin and Plastic Toys and Dolls circa 1960s: Rays Hong Kong Plastic clockwork Mouse, in original box, VG, box F, lacks one flap, Japanese tinplate clockwork Trike with celluloid rider, lacks handlebars, Gyroscope, Rubber clockwork Bear and vintage Dutch Girl Doll with cloth face and body, wooden cloggs and 'pipe cleaner' legs and arms, P-F (5)
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Lot 1316
BRITISH 18th CENTURY TOKENS, Thomas Jordan, Brass Threepence, 1760, obv bear facing left chained to a ring, 1760 below, GOODMANS FIELDS BREWHOUSE around, rev THOMAS JORDAN AND CO. THREE PENCE, edge plain (Atkins p.70, 3; D&H Middlesex 3). Struck from a later state of the obverse die, essentially as made and exceedingly rare. ex W Waite Sanderson Collection, Glendinings, 16 November 1944, lot 66 (part)
Lot 364
An Imperial German Sword, 87cm double fullered blade by EICKHORN SOLINGEN, regulation brass hilt incorporating the cypher of Wilhelm II, wire bound fishskin grip (cypher lacking from grip) contained in its polished steel scabbard. Hilt and blade bear various regulation stamps dating it to 1914 (?)
Lot 471
Mysia, Kyzikos EL Hekte. Circa 550-500 BC. Bearded head of Poseidon to left, wearing a helmet in the form of the head of a sea monster; below, tunny fish to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze -; cf. Hurter & Liewald, SNR 81 (2002), p. 28, no. 17; SNG Aulock 7291. 2.63g, 11mm. Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare. The male head on this coin has been variously identified as a nameless hero, Perseus wearing a griffin skin helmet, or Herakles wearing a lion skin. Other specimens of the type have revealed that the helmet in fact bears a fin-like crest and pointed ears (which on the present coin are off the flan). It has therefore seems that the headdress is actually in the form of a ketos, one of the familiar sea monsters of Greek myth which is most frequently seen on Sicilian coinage, in particular that of Katane and Syracuse. Given that the bearded head is less likely to represent Perseus (who appears beardless, as on von Fritze 65) it could well be Herakles, who killed a ketos in the course of rescuing the Trojan princess Hesione, daughter of Laomedon and sister of Priam. According to some versions of the myth, Herakles was swallowed whole by the monster, and slew it by hacking at its innards for three days until it died, by which time he had lost all his hair. Perhaps during the course of this contest, Herakles temporarily misplaced his trademark lion skin headdress, and resorted to covering his baldness with a nice ketos skin hat. We must bear in mind however that Kyzikene electrum is more frequently influenced by religion (and, it has been supposed, by cult images in particular) than by myth, and so we must look elsewhere for a positive identification - given the marine monster, Poseidon is a prime candidate. Although the god is more frequently encountered with a trident attribute to facilitate identification, a ketos headdress attribute is also appropriate. F. Catalli (Monete Etrusche, Roma 1990, p. 90) included in his work an image of the remarkable Volterra kelebe which depicts a very similar god head wearing a ketos, which though formally identified as Hades, must in fact be Poseidon due to the presence on the one side of a marine monster, and on the other of a bridled horse – both symbols of the God of the Sea. This identification is confirmed by the Etruscan coinage – see Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage I, part 1 pp. 319-321, nos. 2-4 – on these coins we find an identical head identified as Nethuns (Neptune-Poseidon), paired with a reverse showing a hippocamp and border of waves.
Lot 638
Roman Republic Æ Currency Bar. Rome, circa 280-250 BC. Bull walking to right / Bull walking to left. RRC 5/1; HNItaly 257; ICC 15; Haeberlin p. 143-4, 1-5, pl. 57, 1-3, pl. 59, 1, pl. 93. 862g, 156mm x 91mm, 12h. Very Fine, corner cut off. Very Rare, only six complete examples recorded, only one of which is in private hands. From an old English collection, attested as being outside of Italy since before 19 January 2011. Amongst the first cast bronze coins issued at Rome from about 280 are the lead-rich bronze quadrilateral currency bars which cannot readily be tied into the currency of the period, but which do occasionally bear the legend ROMANOM. In form they are reminiscent of the earlier ‘ramo secco’, herringbone and associated bars, but they have never been found in the same context. These bars may be seen not as coins but as ingots probably produced for the distribution of war booty at the time of the Pyrrhic and First Punic War (275-241). The weights for complete specimens range from about 1642 to 1746 grams, which would indicate that they were intended to be 5-as pieces (quincusses), based on a Roman libra of about 324 grams. They are usually found in fragments, indicating that they circulated as bullion with cast coins throughout central Italy. The Romans of later times lacked a coherent history for their early coinage, the surviving literary tradition on the early bronze currency being composed of relentlessly modernising Roman accounts. These accounts are inclined to invent historical as well as monetary events, and characteristically make the beginning of coinage respectably antique and Roman by associating it with the reigns of the semi-mythical kings Numa Pompilius (traditional date, 715-673) and Servius Tullius (traditional date, 578-535). The famous statement of Pliny the Elder in the 1st century AD explicitly states that: ‘Servius rex primus signavit aes. Antea rudi usos Romae Timaeus tradit. Signatum est nota pecudum, unde et pecunia appellata’ (king Servius was the first to mark bronze; Timaeus relates that previously they used raw metal at Rome. It was marked with the image of animals from which pecunia also was supposed to draw its name), (HN 33.13.43). This statement was confirmed by Cassiodorus as late as the 6th century AD: ‘monetae curam habere praecipimus, quam Servius rex in aere primum impressisse perhibetur’ (we advise you to take care of money, which king Servius is held to have first marked in bronze), (Variae 7.32.4.). Pecunia: ‘money or wealth’ from pecus ‘livestock’ (Varro, Ling 5.92). Modern philologists believe that the word may be connected to the Indo-European word *peku ‘movable personal property’ and the Latin peculium ‘private property, savings.’
Lot 639
Anonymous Æ Obol. Neapolis or Cosa (?) circa 273-269 BC. Helmeted head of Minerva right / ROMA, bridled horse’s head right; RRC 17/1d; HN Italy 278; Balbi de Caro, RIN 1988, p. 120, 1949; RBW collection 16. 6.03g, 17mm, 11h. Very Fine. Very rare variety. The entire RRC 17 series may have been struck at Cosa, whose coins share the same types and metrology. The bronze Romano coinage (RRC 17/1a-i) and its parallel issue of the Latin colony of Cosa in Etruria (Vecchi, EC 1, 1-6) have since the 19th century been termed litrai and half-litrae, which has led to confusion for it has no justification in the observed behaviour of the 3rd century central Italian economy. The ancient use of the word litra, a Greek term for a Sicilian bronze unit, in the context of a purely Romano-Etruscan coinage without any contemporary parallel in Italy, seems unlikely and certainly not of contemporary usage. It may be better to describe these interesting military issues in Italian Greek or Roman weight terms with their customary nomenclature. From the mid 4th century Metapontine bronzes of 7.5-9.5g bear the denomination OBOΛΟΣ (HN Italy 1639-40) and from c.326 the standard Æ unit of Neapolis weighs between 5 and 10 grams which probably represents a fiduciary obol, which comfortably accommodates the Romano and Cosa bronzes which range between about 5 and 8 grams. For an in depth analysis of Neapolitan bronze issues, see A. Campana, ‘A proposito dell’obol di bronzo’ in Panorama Numismatico 94, 1996, pp. 12-16.
Lot 916
Rectangular Solidus Weight (?) or Dedicatory Plaquette. Circa AD 507-511. Æ with silver inlay legend: SALVS DOMNO NOSTRO / CAELIANVS PATRICIVS PRAEF VR. Unpublished in the standard references, for similar examples cf. S. Benadall, Byzantine Weights, 1996, 172 (in the names of Zeno, Odovacar and Symmachus, now in the BnF, Paris); J. Forien de Rochesnard, Album des poids antiques 3, Rome et Byzance, p. 51 (in the name Albinus); NAC sale 5, 1992, 621 = NAC sale 54, 2010, 1339 (in the name Paulinvs praef. vrb.), sold for CHF 4,600. 3.66g, 20 x 14mm, 6h. Very Fine. A most interesting historical document. The office of praefecti vrbi, originally created by Augustus, acted as chief magistrates of the the city of Rome. They were always of high rank, viri clarrisimi in the late empire and in command of the police force, the vigiles urbanae and their general jurisdiction would have included the issue and of control of weights and measures. If these are solidus weights they usually suffer the drawback of being light, perhaps due the deterioration of the bronze, and weigh between 4.28g and 3.66g. H. Dressel in ‘Corpus Inscriptiones Latinorum’ (CIL) 15, listed these as ‘tesserae monumetorum’ or dedicatory plaquettes intended to mark dedications, reconstructions or repairs to buildings on the basis that some bear the formula renovavit which perhaps points to this conclusion.
Lot 144
AN ILLUMINATED RUSSIAN OLD BELIEVERS MANUSCRIPT WITH NEUMES FOR THE DIVINE LITURGY OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOMRussia, middle of 19th Century. 8vo (232 x 183 mm). 93 leaves. Illuminated in red and black ink, with profuse polychrome and gilt illustrations of the title page and initials. Some leaves bear an impressed paper manufacturer`s stamp V. G. P. U. F. Sergiyevskoy in the corner. Contemporary blind stamp leather binding over wood panels, two clasps (both missing). Spine neatly restored. Colored top, fore, and lower edges.PLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.
Lot 137
10th-12th century AD. A bronze mount, slightly convex to the reverse, formed as a clean-shaven male face modelled in the half-round, with almond eyes and scrolled plaques to the brow, angular nose and chin; the nose with large transverse hole to accept a ring or loop. See Williams, D. Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, York, 1997. 50 grams, 46mm (1 3/4"). From an old Munich collection; acquired on the German art market before 2000. The facial features bear a resemblance to those found on 11th century Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mounts (Williams, items 464, 465). The slight curvature to the reverse of the mount suggests that it was intended to be fixed to a curved surface, such as the outer face of a bucket, cauldron or bowl, but the absence of a stud or holes for rivets indicates that the mount cannot have been load-bearing. It is therefore likely that it was an adornment.
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