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Click here to subscribeMaw & Co - Nine 6in Aesop's Fable dust pressed tiles comprising the boy who cried wolf, the milkmaid and her jug of milk, the swan among the geese, the doctors and the dying man, the two companions and the bear, the countryman and the snake, small fish better than none (S/D), the old man and his ass and the goose which laid golden eggs
A lot to include a 9ct yellow gold six stone ring in flower head design, a yellow metal turquoise and pink stone ring, a 9ct rose gold cross pendant, stamped 9ct, a silver crown wind pocket watch, the white enamel dial having hourly Roman numeral burgundy markers with minute track border, dial decorated with gold tone and silver tone enamel to centre and in between hour markers, with engraved blank shield cartouche to reverse surrounded by floral engraved design, continuing around edge of watch, a silver hexagonal napkin ring, stamped Sterling Silver, two Georgian silver condiment spoons, one having turned wooden handle, hallmarked Birmingham 1823, the other having very indistinct hallmark, an Egyptian style white metal bracelet with Niello detailing and filigree surround, a pair of Victorian sugar tongs, hallmarked Birmingham 1900, two button hooks, one being silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1897, the other being white metal with mother of pearl handle, a silver enamel brooch, a silver lidded glass bottle, stamped Sterling Silver, a white metal bear shaped rattle.
A pair of Sèvres porcelain and gilt bronze mounted urns, each decorated with figures in a garden setting within an enamel bejewelled border on a bleu-celeste ground with panels of flowers and musical instruments / garden tools verso, bear blue crossed L marks with letter A for 1753 and decorator's mark "EC" to underside of lid CONDITION REPORTS One lid broken into numerous pieces and with cracks, chips and losses which have been fillered and over--painted, paint very yellowed and discoloured, other lid with firing cracks around underside of rim, various losses to the jewelled deocration to both lids. One urn with several large discoloured cracks/breaks to both sides, some glue to cracks, some losses to jewelled decoration. Both urns and lids have at some time in the past been restored and over-painted - this appears to have been professionally carried out and it is not possible to ascertain the extent of damage beneath the restoration. 30 cm high
KURDISH RULERS OF ADHARBAYJAN, DAYSAM B. IBRAHIM (326-341h), Dinar, al-Maragha 326h. OBVERSE: In field: crescent above, two pellets below. REVERSE: In field: lillah | Muhammad | rasul Allah | al-Radi billah | Daysam bin Ibrahim | two pellets. WEIGHT: 3.44g. REFERENCES: Bernardi 296Ke (date not listed, known only from 328h); Vardanyan -. CONDITION: Slightly wavy flan, very fine to good very fine and extremely rare. NOTE: Apparently the earliest known issue from al-Maragha to bear Daysam b. Ibrahim’s name.
ARAB-SASANIAN, MALIK B. ‘AWS, Drachm, SK (Sijistan) 66h. WEIGHT: 2.63g. REFERENCES: SICA 1: 367; Album – (see note after M40). CONDITION: Clipped, fine to good fine and extremely rare NOTE: A coin of one of the rarest Arab-Sasanian governors, known only from a handful of examples all of which bear this mint and date. The first name, Malik, is almost certainly correctly read but the patronymic, bin ‘Aws, is conjectural. Discussing this issue in SICA 1 (pp. 25-26), Album plausibly suggests that the date is in fact a frozen year – a practice common in Sijistan – and that Malik may have held power there for a short time between 66h and 72h.
ARAB-SASANIAN, SALM B. ZIYAD, Drachm, MRW (Marw) 65h. OBVERSE: In second and third quadrants of margin: bismillah Allah – akbar. REVERSE: In first quadrant of border: ombiro. WEIGHT: 3.31g. REFERENCES: Gaube p.29, 2.2.3.4.19; cf Walker p.81, 138 for a coin with similar legends (dated 68h). CONDITION: Mount removed from edge, good fine and extremely rare. NOTE: This appears to be the earliest known Islamic coin to bear the famous slogan Allah Akbar. Discussing the specimen dated 68h published by Walker, Album notes that the word ombiro on the reverse ‘must assuredly be the Bactrian form of the city name Anbir’ (SICA 1, p.23). His explanation for this curious situation whereby the coin apparently has two mint-names - the Pahlawi MRW (Marw) and the Bactrian ombiro (Anbir) - is that the Pahlawi legend denotes where the coin itself was struck (Marw), while the Bactrian inscription shows that it was issued under the auspices of the Ephthalites, whose political capital was at Anbir. Further support for this coin having been struck by or for the Ephthalites comes from the presence of a fourth circle on the reverse, outside the four stars-and-crescents. As Album points out, this feature is not otherwise found on regular Arab-Sasanian drachms until the early 70s, but appears on the plentiful Ephthalite imitations of Anahita-type drachms of Khusraw II, struck well before the present coin.
Greenland, P 11, Sieg 58C, Styrelsen af Kolonierne i Grønland, 25 Øre. (1913). Common eider duck on rock in water at center on front. Signatures Daugaard Jensen - Barner Rasmussen. Crowned polar bear at left, Danish coat of arms at right on back., # 194471, Tear in lower border, otherwise UNC-
Greenland, P 15f, Sieg 63F, Grønlands Styrelse, 5 Kroner, (1926). Polar bear on ice at center on front. Signatures Eske Brun - Ole Pedersen. Greenland coat of arms at left, Danish coat of arms at right on back., # 278816, Center hole, splits on the folds, otherwise F/VF, (only 4 pieces known in private collections)
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