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Pre-1920 G.B. Silver Coins.Approximately 90gms of mostly worn or holed early British coins but including nice grade 1844 Groat, 1838 2d Maundy, 2 x 1843, 1 1/2 ds in collectable grade and 1697 William III Halfcrown, worn but collectable. Contained in cigarette tin.Lot also includes a small quantity of bronze coinage.
Great Britain Bronze and Silver Coinage / 1951 Festival of Britain Memorabilia, etc.Lot comprises in excess of 14kg of unchecked G.B. 1d coins Victoria to Queen Elizabeth, 50 pence of pre 1947 G.B. silver, approximately 4.25kg of G.B. brass King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II 3d coins, and a bag of 1/2d coins.Lot also includes a 1951 Festival of Britain guide and an unusual 1951 Festival of Britain 3d "Souvenir of London" with original gelatine spectacles for viewing the photographed London scenes.
Coin Album.A coin album containing mostly G.B coins.Noted: An 1887 crown, various silver 3d coins, various pre 1920 and pre 1947 G.B silver, quantity of more recent G.B bronze coinage, a number of Roman coins - some will be copies -, plus a Richard II hammered 1/2d, a small gold coloured Italian Victor Emanuelle medallion, plus two small hammered Celtic coins with attached history, and a Lusitania propoganda medal.
World War Two Trio of Medals and various Horticultural Medallions.Lot comprises a small gas mask? box containing General Service Medal (Queen Elizabeth II) with Malaya Bar, plus World War war and defence medals awarded to Pte. J. Hider RAOC together with 4 silver and 7 bronze medallions awarded by Gardening Illustrated, Royal Horticultural Society, National Sweet Pea Society and Toogood & Sons Ltd Southampton (The Kings Seedsmen) in respect of Mr Hider's civillian role as a professional gardener at RHS Wisley.Lot includes a typed note of the family history.
Great Britain pre 1920 Silver Coinage, pre Decimal Coinage and Military Badges and Buttons.Comprising £0.95 of pre 1920 Silver coinage, 1951, 1953, 1960 Crowns, a scarce 1950 penny, together with a well filled album of pre-decimal mostly bronze coinage and a quantity of later G.B. coinage.Lot also includes a few military cap badges and buttons.
Great Britain and World Copper and Bronze Coinage.Comprises a 1902 1d (A-Unc), 1854 copper 1d, an early Somerset (Frome) Farthing token, a 1925 British Empire Exhibition medallion, a Portuguese 1815 40 Reis coin plus approximately 40 various other mainly early coinage including a gilded Scottish coin/token (holed).
Transport - Railways - South Africa Interest.A bronze medallion dated 1895 (4.5cm diameter) commemorating the opening of The Pretoria to Lourenco Marques railway in 1895 by Netherlands-South Africa Railway Company.The reverse depicts the flying wheel with thunderbolts, whilst the obverse depicts President Kruger who was a great advocate for the building of the line.
Fonderia Sommer: a late 19th-century Grand Tour Italian large cast bronze figure of Narcissus, after the antique, on a decorated round base, engraved 'Fondera Sommer, Napoli', 64 cm, with associated velvet-topped circular stand.Condition report: Some discoloration and surface abrasions throughout, but structurally sound. Wear to the historic gilding.
A well cast Romano British bronze figure of the goddess Salus/Hygeia, circa 2/3 AD, wearing a long robe, a cornucopia in her left hand and a short staff in her right, on a circular base with cast hole at the rear, 7cmFrom the private collection of a deceased estate. With the original receipt of purchase from B A Seaby Ltd, 1981, £530. Noting that it was found to the west of Bradford on Avon, Wilts.
After Moreau, a lost wax cast bronze figure group of a mother and daughter observing a snail on a fruiting vine, 19th century with a deep dark brown/green patina on a naturalistic base bearing a cast inscised artist's signature. 26 wide x 33 cm highPrivate collectionFootnote: The Moreau family's dynasty begins with Jean Baptiste Moreau, who was born in Dijon, France at the end of the 18th century. Jean Baptiste had three sons who followed in his footsteps, they were Auguste, Mathurin and Hyppolyte-François. The legacy continued with Auguste’s sons, Louis Auguste and Hyppolyte Francois. Members of the Moreau family often studied at the famous École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Condition report: Good order
After Clodion ( Claude Michel 1738-1814), a pair of patinated bronze figures of young Nymph and Satyr, 19th century both in playful mien upon naturalistic tree stump bases, marked 'Clodion' to the reverse, now loose mounted on circular Sienna marble socles, 30 cm high the actual figures.private collectionCondition report: good order
After Hippolyte François Moreau (French, 1832-1927), a lost wax cast bronze figure of a country maiden with a posy of flowers in her hand and a lute at her hip with rich "nut-brown" patina. Bearing the cast incised artists signature to the naturalistic circular base. 17 cm wide x 50 cm overall height Private collectionFootnote: Artist Hippolyte Francois Moreau was a classically trained French sculptor born in 1832. He initially worked under his father and world-famous sculptor, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, before moving to Paris to work and study under François Jouffroy. From 1863 to 1914, artist HippolyteCondition report: Good order
After Christophe Fratin, ( French 1808-1864 ) A lost wax cast bronze study of a mare and her foal, 20th century, with deep khaki/ brown patina, the rectangular base bearing a cast incised artist's signature and mounted on a green sub base. 30 cm long overall x 17 cm wide overall x 24 cm high overallPrivate collectionFootnote: Christophe Fratin, also known as Christopher Fratin, was a noted French sculptor in the animalier style, and one of the earliest French sculptors to portray animals in bronze.He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831–1842 and 1850–1862, as well as at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851.Condition report: Good orderThis is probably a 20th-century edition of this well known sculpture
A fine pair of Retour D’ Egypte ormolu and patinated bronze four sconce candelabra, in the manner of Pierre Philippe Thomire, early 19th century possibly Naples, Italy. Each with gilt scrolling branches issuing from Egyptian style female figures, on architectural veined marble architectural plinths with sepulchral appliques. 77.5 cm high overall Lot 90, Sotheby’s Ariane Dandois sale, 25 October 2007, New York.LOT 382, Sotheby’s, 13 June 2001, London Footnote: Probably based on a similar pair that can be seen in the Louvre that are to a design by Charles Percier (RF30630) the column design was originally taken from a sketch and was originally conceived as caryatid supports for a table. Condition report: Some minor damage to the mounting plate of one candelabra, no visible repairs or further damage to either.Expected wear to patina likey from age, slight tilt to both central sconces, probably part of flower motif.One corner of the architecturally base has a small patch
An ancient Egyptian bronze miniature snake coffin, late period after 600BC, of rectangular form, the top cast with a coiling snake, with original receipt of purchase from B A Seaby Ltd, 1983, 5.5cm; and a similar bronze box/coffin, the top cast with a lizard, circa 4th - 1st century BC, (ex Moustaki collection, exported Egypt 1949 under licence), 5.3cm
A collection of antiquities and later objects of interest, to include a black stone polished axehead, circa 3000BC, from near Lake Chad, South Sahara, 6cm; a Cunieform clay tablet and tablet sherd, 4cm & 3.4cm; an Ashante bronze gold weight, modelled as a man scraping bark from a tree, 5.8cm; a further Ashante figural gold weight, 7.3cm, a Burmese Hintha/Hamsa duck weight, 6.5cm, a small bronze weight cast as an elephant on stepped base, 2.5cm; a Persian clay relief moulded panel, 10.5 x 8.6cm; a collection of flint arrow heads and other flint tool, a lump of meteorite, a fossilised ammonite, a 17th century pewter spoon, the bowl with touchmarks; a bronze Merchant Taylor School nmedal, 1875; and an obsidian bust of an Aztec, 8cmAll from a private Bedfordshire collection.The axe head purchased from The Ancient World (Bernard C Pickard) in 1973.The Ashante gold weight of the man and tree purchased from BA Seaby Ltd in 1981A note states the origins of the flint axeheads and tools as derived from the Gunnersbury Museum, Cissbury Hill Fort in Essex and Brettenham in Norfolk.
A collection of antiquities, comprising a Roman bronze Camulodunum Type V Fibula, known as a Dolphin brooch, circa 50 - 150AD, 4.3cm; a Celtic bronze matching Woad grinding set, circa 1st century BC/AD, of boat shape with ball terminals and a crescent form pestle (found Norfolk); a middle bronze age dagger blade, circa 2200BC, 22.5cm, a Roman legionnaire's bronze short sword amulet, 4cm; a Roman phallus pendant and medallion, each 3.5cm; a Roman bronze eagle medallion and two silver coins, 18mm & 14mm dia; a 15th century Pilgrims badge of St Leonard, 3.5cm, a Celtic bronze pestle, 7.3cm, a Bronze brooch in the form of a swimming turtle, 3cm, and two arrowheadsThe Fibula with the original receipt of purchase in 1974 from The Ancient World ( Bernard C Pickard).
An Egyptian seated bronze figure of the scribe Imhotep, 26th dynasty, 630 - 525 BC, the figure with a papyrus scroll in his hands resting on his lap, his feet on a square base, 10cm, on a later ebonised wood stand, 12.5cm overallA private collection from a deceased estate. Purchased from B A Seaby Ltd, 1985, for £470.
Roman antiquities, comprising a gold ring, 2/3rd century AD, the bezel applied with the cowled figure of Telesphorus, size O; a pair of Roman attributed gold earrings, 2/3 AD, a Romano - British brooch in the form of a running dog, circa 2 AD, with yellow & blue enamel decoration, 3.7cm; a Roman bronze miniature hand, cast holding a ball between the fore and middle fingers, 3.7cm, two carnelian intaglios and three rings, two of which with intaglios in carnelian and a polished hardstone depicting Aesculapius
A Khmer bronze warrior bangle, with dragon head terminals, the scaly spine flanked by bands of 'S' scrolls and floret heads, interior diameter 7.5cm, outer diameter 12cm; and Indonesian Tumbok/ Kris and a Karambit, each with characteristic foliate carved hilts, one mounted in carved horn, with single brass binding to scabbard, 27cm overall, the larger Kris with eight brass bindings to the scabbard, 35cm overall, the Karambit with excessive curved blade and carved ring handle grip, 18cm overallA private Bedfordshire collector.Condition report: The Karambit has a horn handle that has a small splice missing from one of the end tendrils, there is a small piece missing from the hilt of the scabbard and an open slither where the two pieces of the scabbard meet in the middle. There is evidence of something being attached to the tip of the scabbard which is now missing.The horn handled keris is generally in good order with no obvious significant faults.The larger keris has a carved wood handle which has three splits. Otherwise no further obvious faults.All blades are intact and the metal discoloured.

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