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Lot 500
1919-1936 AD. Instituted 1919, bronze. Obv: profile bust with GEORGIVS V REX ET IMP IMP legend. Rev: partial wreath with FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SPECIAL CONSTABULARY legend. Edge: impressed to WILLIAM H MEADOWS; with ribbon and pin suspender (ribbon torn). Instituted 1961, Royal Mint, awarded for 15 years service. Obv: monogram intials WVS within wreath. Rev: triple flower with SERVICE BEYOND SELF legend; with ribbon (no pin), in green box of issue. 168 grams total, 130 x 60mm (WVS case). MY 272; MY 265. [2] Extremely fine and as struck.
Lot 591
240 AD. Rome mint. Obv: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG legend with laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right. Rev: FORTVNA REDVX legend with Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia, wheel under seat; SC in exergue. 21.74 grams. With old French collector ticket. RIC IV-3, 331; Sear 8708. Near extremely fine.
Lot 627
An undated archaistic carved bone finger ring in 323-31 BC style, with D-section hoop and elliptical bezel, reserved female profile bust. 3.73 grams, 24 mm overall, 13.82 mm internal diameter (approximate size British E 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 3.42, Japan 3) (1). From an old Swiss collection; acquired in Beirut before 1980. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 628
Dated 1788 (probably made later). A large group of gilt brass gaming counters. Obvs: profile bust with GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA legend. Revs: crowned 'spade' arms with date below and IN MEMORY OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS legend. 410 grams total. These gaming counters are usually based upon the design of the George III gold 'spade' guineas and half guineas and most were made in Birmingham from around the 1770s until the early 19th century. [218, No Reserve] Generally extremely fine, about as made.
Lot 637
Coin dated 1937-1945. Obv: profile bust with GEORGIVS VI D G GR OMN REX legend. Rev: smoothed and engraved in small script with 'Grey's Elergy The curfew toils the knell of parting day the lowing herd wind slowly oer the lea the ploughman homeward plods his weary way and leaves the world to darkness and to me C. Moore' in nine lines. 0.82 grams. S. 4085 (coin). The lines are the first verse from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (published 1751). [No Reserve] Coin smoothed, engraving neatly done and fine.
Lot 650
Dated 1935B, 1953B, Bern mint. Obvs: William Tell bust with CONFOEDERATIO HELVETICA legend. Revs: arms with 5FR marks of value above and date and 'B' mintmark below. 14.93, 14.99 grams. Ex Walter Steinberg collection; one with card holder. KM# 40 Walter Steinberg has been a well-known figure at fairs, sales and events for many years. Born in 1922 in Philadelphia, Walter has had a life-long passion for collecting. A long-time resident in London, he has now retired to New York and decided that the time has come to pass on the antiquities and coins he has collected over his lifetime. Walter acquired coins and artefacts that interested him, so his collection, although containing many lovely examples, also contains many affordable specimens. Much of the material has been unavailable to the market for 30 to 50 years. Walter hopes that the items he collected will now find new homes with the next generation of collectors. [2, No Reserve] Very fine and extremely fine.
Lot 83
1st-17th century AD. A mixed group comprising: a Roman plaque of an advancing horse; a medieval bronze strap end with knop finial; three Tudor hook fasteners; a 1717 George I farthing; three coin weights; a Georgian fob seal matrix with inset red glass intaglio of a male bust in profile; a Georgian silver cufflink. 52 grams total, 14-66mm (1/2 - 2 3/4). Found Nothamptonshire, UK. [11] Mainly fine condition.
Lot 219
7th-8th century AD. A flat-section monofacial repoussé bracteate with the facing bust of a Byzantine Holy Emperor, probably Constantine IV, Pogonatus (Senior Augustus 15th July 668-10th July 685 AD), in military attire holding spear over his right shoulder; two lateral stitching holes for attachment; crimped edge folded to the reverse. 0.84 grams, 20mm (3/4). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the London art market. Constantine IV Pogonatus, meaning the bearded, ruled the Byzantine empire from 668 - 685 AD. His reign saw the defense of Constantinople against an Arab attack and temporarily checked the spread of Islam in the Middle East. He was also responsible for convening the Sixth Ecumenical Council which reaffirmed the Orthodox doctrine of monotheism. At his death his son Justinian II ruled the Empire. Very fine condition.
Lot 260
18th century AD. A mixed group comprising: a small pocket seal with bone handle, octagonal face with sitting greyhound motif; a discoid plaque with intaglio profile female bust with floral hairband, remains of four legs to the reverse. 6.51 grams total, 18-33mm (3/4 - 1 1/4). Property of a Hampshire gentleman; by inheritance 1970s. [2, No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 320
An undated archaistic gold discoid plaque in 1st century BC-2nd century AD style, with rolled rim, repoussé facing bust of Silenus with abundant hair and beard; pierced in two places for attachment. 2.53 grams, 33mm (1 1/4). Property of a Surrey collector; acquired in the early 1970s. Silenus was the companion and tutor of Dionysus, the god of wine and agrarian fertility. When drunk Silenus was believed to have the power of prophecy. Gold discs such as these were sown onto the clothes of the Greek and Hellenized elite. A number of gold discs have been found in the tombs of the Macedonian royal family as well as examples from the Greek colonies in the North Pontic region. Fine condition.
Lot 34
9th-11th century AD. A bronze disc brooch formed from a contemporary or earlier bronze coin by the addition of pin-lugs and catchplate; the coin with short-cross centre to the reverse, bearded bust to the obverse. 9.70 grams, 32mm (1 1/4). Property of a Middlesex gentleman; acquired in the 1980s. Cf. coin-brooch in Hammond, B. British Artefacts vol.3 - Late Saxon, Late Viking & Norman, Witham, 2013, item 1.1.1-t. [No Reserve] Fine condition, usage wear to obverse.
Lot 124
A pair of German plaster head and shoulder busts of a bearded man and woman on waisted circular bases, the reverses inscribed Geshutz and numbered 121 and 122, impressed GR, 33cm high; a plaster bust, head and shoulders of a young woman in Art Nouveau style on foliate clasped square plinth, 45cm high, all early 20th Century and later (faults)
Lot 31
An Indian silver coloured metal teapot the hinged domed cover with deity riding a lion, the handle with mask and bust terminal, the body decorated in relief on a chased ground with village scenes, three stylised paw feet, zoomorphic spout, 26cm wide, ivory insulators, 21ozs gross, 19th Century
Lot 636
Advertising - Mersey Mission to Seamen - an exterior sign with relief carved head and shoulder bust of a seaman for the SS Mersey Clipper, the sign itself reading "36 The Laurels, Mersey Mission to Seamen, Prayers Nightly 8pm, Free Soup Nightly 8.30pm, Lady Pamela Ward in nightly attendance", 93cm high overall, 52 cm wide max., (faults and re-decorated)
Lot 91
Clement Ramult de Radymno, Sermones de Tempore, - in Latin, manuscript on paper [south east Poland in Latin, manuscript on paper [south east Poland (Tarnów, east of Krakow), dated 1541 and 1548] 362 leaves, bound too tightly to collate but apparently complete (a single blank cancelled after fol.57 with no loss of text), c. 40 lines in black ink in a cursive hand, paragraph marks and rubrics in border in red, titles touched in red, edges slightly trimmed, some small stains throughout, else good condition, title on lower edge: de tempore sermones A , 162mm. by 105mm., contemporary or near-contemporary Polish aristocratic binding of blindtooled morocco over bevelled wooden boards, with compartments enclosing busts of Greek mythological figures holding musical instruments, above their names, and the title SERMONES DEI , all enclosing central panels (front board with the Crucifixion in gilt above the legend [N]OS NON COMINU: EXEO ; back board with further busts of the Biblical figures Peter, Paul and David), small scuffs to each board, split along edges of spine and some wear to head and foot, but solid in binding, remains of two metal clasps Provenance: (1) Written in Tarnów, Poland, in the mid-sixteenth century (inscriptions 1541 at foot of fol. 188v and in loco Tharnowiensis anno d. 1548 in red in gutter of fol.358v), doubtless for an itinerant preacher, and perhaps for the author himself; (2) Mojmir Filip Alois Helcelet (1879-1959) of Brno in the Czech Republic: his armorial labels on back pastedown with acquisition date, 1 June 1937; (3) Eivind Hassler (1939-2009) of Uppsala, Sweden; perhaps acquired in 1950: erased pencil marks on front pastedown. Text: This is an important medieval Polish book. Any manuscript containing the works of a Polish author is of great rarity, and the present manuscript is both dated and placed, and may have been copied for or by the author himself. It contains sermons from the first Sunday in Advent (fol.1r) to the 25th after Pentecost (fol.347r), followed by another for the dedication of a church. Another manuscript is recorded in Krakow, Biblioteka Prowincji, Ojców Bernardynów, MS.10/R. The author was a prominent ecclesiastical translator and preacher, who in 1512 entered the monastery of the Franciscan fathers of St. Bernadine in Przeworsk, some 50 miles to the west of Tarnów. He died in 1562, and thus this manuscript dates to within his lifetime, and was written in a town neighbouring that in which he lived. He may well have been responsible for its copying, and it is entirely possible that the present witness is in his hand or was made for his own use. Binding: While individual elements of the binding appear German, very close parallels can be found on sixteenth-century printed books from the Polish royal court (a Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine , ed. Erasmus of Rotterdam, Basel, 1527, in the armorial named binding of Bishop Jan Dantyszek, d.1548, an attendant on King Sigismund II Augustus, the book now Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa, XVI. F. 2339: illustrated in More Precious than Gold: Treasures of the Polish National Library , 2000, no.34; and a series of volumes bound in Krakow in 1549 for King Sigismund himself, ibid. no.37). All share the same monumental capitals of the title at the head of each front board, close enough that they may be from the same tools, and the arrangement of concentric bands of compartments with bust-portraits around a central panel.
Lot 10
Francesco Solimena (1657-1747) - Study for Fall of the Rebel Angels Black chalk, on thick laid paper Bears old pen and brown ink attribution verso : Franc. Solimena, d.1747. A 90. 25.5 x 19 cm. (10 x 7 1/2 in) Provenance: Private collection, UK Literature: cf. Bologna, Ferdinando, Francesco Solimena, 1957 cf. Bologna, Ferdinando, Solimena nel Palazzo Reale di Napoli per le nozze di Carlo di Borbone, in "Prospettiva", 1979, 16, pp. 53-67 . The composition of the present drawing relates to several known paintings by Francesco Solimena, including an oil sketch that was sold in Sotheby's Milan in 2011 (Dipinti Antichi, 14th June 2011, lot 51). The recumbent figure also appears as a type that Solimena employed in a number of commissions, including his Caduta di Simon Mago , S. Paolo Maggiore, Naples, and S. Michele Arcangelo , Salerno, Church of St. George. While the drawing has is closely related to these works, it does have several differences in its composition, specifically the inclusion of Saint Michael's helmet and armour. While this inclusion is not apparent in the Sotheby's painting, it was not unusual for Solimena when representing this subject, as his S. Michele Arcangelo , Rome (private collection) illustrates. The execution of the drawing, and the distinctive cross-hatching employed, would appear to be very close to several known drawings by Solimena, including his The Death of St Joseph , held in the British Museum, London (no. 1946,0713.909), and the Design for a silver bust of S. Francesco di Paola , previously part of The Ralph Holland Collection (sold at Sotheby's, London, Galleria Portatile' - The Ralph Holland Collection, 5th July 2013, lot 315). We are grateful to Ferdinando Bologna for confirming the attribution to Francesco Solimena on the basis of a photograph (private correspondence, June 2015).
Lot 38
Circle of François Clouet (1522-1572) - Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), bust length, in a black dress and white ruff with a gold necklace Oil on panel Bears manuscript pen and ink label on reverse inscribed Mary Queen of Scots by Mark Garrard [Marcus Gheeraerts] 47 x 35 cm. (18 1/2 x 13 3/4 in) Provenance: Private collection, Scotland
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