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Lot 334
A shipbuilder's half hull mirror-back model, Steam Trawler King's Grey, build by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley, 1915, in a mahogany display case and having an ivorine makers plaque, 94 cm long See inside front cover colour illustration Condition report ReportMirror cracked to left hand side. Top, front and sides of cabinet are Perspex and slides out from one end. Some pieces loose in the bottom of the case.Report by GHMirror back cracked on the left hand side. Metal parts of ship all a little tarnished and oxidised. Some small pieces have fallen off and are loose in the bottom of the case.Sides, top and front of case are clear plastic rather than glass. The rear of the right hand side piece of moulding at the far bottom right hand side of the case has been splintered off. Other scratches, dents and marks to case.Overall generally appears to be complete, but needs a little work to become more presentable.
Lot 757
A mahogany and satinwood inlaid side cabinet, the frieze decorated palmettes and anthemoins above a pair of glazed doors and glazed sides on a plinth base, 108 cm wide See illustration Condition report GH: Small veneer chip to the left front of the top, and another to the rear right. Top scratched and ring ring marked. Small veneer losses to door edges and some loose veneer. General wear and tear, but no signs of any structural issues or restoration. Saleroom fresh condition.
Lot 26
An exceptional early 20th century large Industrial oak index filing cabinet on stand. Raised on a squared tapering leg base with a tall heavy oak body adorned with multiple banks of drawers. Each with hook handles and notation slides. Dismantles into 2 pieces for ease of movement. 152cms high x 109cms wide x 48cms deep
Lot 50
A rare mid century Danish modular wall system having a large panel back with rail ends. The board surmounted by a shaped deep shelf and a sliding door cabinet with appointed interior to include 2 white plastic trays. Measures 244cm high x 85cm wide.This item complete with Article 10 certificate.
Lot 205
Specimen Cabinet From The London Natural History Museum's Rothschild, Cockayne & Kettlewell Butterfly Collection French polished mahogany twin paneled door, enclosing 10 large glass topped drawers with napthalene chamber at front and cork lining, with removable top, plaque to inside of the door 'J.J. HILL & SON, CABINET WORKS, YEWFIELD RD, WILLESDEN, LONDON NW10', 50cm x 49cm x 74cm
Lot 155
A Fine & Massive Edmund Wheeler ‘Stand A’ Compound Binocular Microscope, English, circa 1870, microscope height 58cm, combined weight 25kg, Signed 'EDMUND WHEELER LONDON' to rear of foot, standing on large Y-shaped base with tall upright plates supporting the body on trunnions, the large plano-concave mirror in gimbal on sliding collar, fully mechanical substage with X & Y, crown & gear rotation and focussing control, large goniometer stage with scale engraved to perimeter, full X & Y control via rack and screw, slide clip and rest to top, massive course focussing wheels acting on rackwork to rear of column, limb at top incorporating fine focussing mechanism, Wenham prism in drawer at base of body-tube, binocular body-tube with interocular rackwork control, in large fitted mahogany cabinet, complete with large separate case of accessories including, Gillet substage condenser, Wenhams parabolic substage condenser, substage polariser, spot lens, wheel of stops, dark wells, and low power binocular eyepieces, medium power binocular eyepieces, 8 objectives by Ross & Wheeler, vertical illuminator engraved ‘Powell & Lealand Patent 14, HISLOPS ANALYSING SELENITE STAGE BY E. WHEELER’ in satin lined Moroccan leather case, complete with large table bulls-eye condenser, table side reflector, table prism and other accessories. Provenance; i) Body tube engraved with original owners name 'Horncastle, Edwinstow' ii) Sold at Sothebys in 2001 'Masterpieces of science and technology from the 16th to 20th centuries', lot 17, a copy of this catalogue accompanies the microscope
Lot 8
Lucania, Metapontion AR Stater. Circa 510 BC. Ear of barley upright with seven grains on each side, META downwards to left, grasshopper to right; raised and braided dotted border around / Incuse barley ear, dolphin upwards to left in linear relief. Noe 102 (2 examples); HN Italy 1472. 7.95g, 28mm, 12h. Good Extremely Fine. Very attractive old cabinet tone. Extremely Rare. An issue of great fascination. From the B.R.H. Collection, privately purchased c.1980s in Munich. The most desirable of all the incuse types of Metapontion, this remarkable and brief series comprising only four known obverse dies for the staters and one for a third stater marks the first usage of adjunct symbols on the coinage of Metapontion. A series of great fascination, the meaning of the grasshopper and the dolphin has been a subject of debate for many years. Noe advocated the symbols as representing the badges of the moneyers’ houses, an argument not dissimilar to that which led the early archaic Athenian coins to be called ‘wappenmünzen’. Lenormant's view that the insect has a propitiatory significance is rejected with the derisory rhetorical question ‘there may have been a plague of locusts but could there have been a plague of dolphins?’, while avoiding trying to explain its significance. Babelon (Traité, 1395-1396) proposed a punning reference to the hero Alybas, father of Metabos, and legendary founder of the city, however the Greek word he proposes to mean locust is incorrect, and the argument founders, still failing to explain the dolphin. It is most logical to follow Lenormant and view the appearance of the grasshopper-locust on the coins as being a propitiatory emblem or commemorating the deliverance of the city from a plague of locusts through the intervention of Apollo. Indeed, the god is closely associated with afflictions (and the relief of), and had as one of his epithets ‘Parnopios’, from πάρνοψ, “locust” – the expeller of locusts. Given that the dolphin was both a form he had taken and one of his sacred animals, as well as being a punning allusion to him as Apollo Delphinios, it seems eminently reasonable to determine the link between the two symbols as being in reference to a plague of locusts whose abatement was attributed to the intervention of Apollo. That the grasshopper-locust symbol recurs several times more throughout the extensive coinage of Metapontion and at appreciable intervals is hardly suggestive of descendants of a particular family holding office, as Noe suggested, but rather more likely indicative of recurrent swarms threatening the principle source of the city’s wealth and food.
Lot 61
Sicily, Syracuse AR Tetradrachm. Deinomenid Tyranny. Time of Hieron I, circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving slow quadriga right; Nike flying to right above, crowning horses / Head of Arethusa right, wearing earring, necklace and headband, her hair tied in a krobylos; ΣVRΑKΟΣΙΟΝ and four dolphins around. Boehringer -, (V140/R208). 17.45g, 25mm, 2h. Mint State; exceptional metal quality and preservation for a Syracusan tetradrachm of this period. Superb lustre with vivid iridescence. Extremely Rare; this die pairing not recorded by Boehringer. Ex Dr. Murray Gell-Mann Collection, Roma Numismatics XI, 7 April 2016, lot 105; This coin must certainly have a pre-2000 provenance, however this cataloguer has been unable to find it. This coin displays not only an incredibly sharp strike from fresh dies in the centre of a large planchet, but also a wonderfully deep cabinet tone with gold iridescence on the obverse and vivid green flashes radiating out from the portrait on the reverse. This has yielded a coin with gem-like qualities; it is without a doubt one of the most beautiful Deinomenid tetradrachms to have come to market in many years. Following the Battle of Himera in 480 BC, Syracuse had been unchallenged in Sicily. The reign of Hieron therefore was characterised by a period of great expansion in the power and prestige of Syracuse, and the effective carte blanche to do as he pleased; he removed the inhabitants of Naxos and Katane to Leontinoi, peopled Katane (which he renamed Aitna) with Dorians, concluded an alliance with Akragas, and espoused the cause of the Lokrians against Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegion. Around the time when this coin must have been struck, Hieron achieved his most important military victory at the Battle of Cumae in 474 BC. Responding to a call for aid from Aristodemos, the tyrant of Cumae, to counter an Etruscan invasion, Hieron sent a fleet of triremes to assist the Cumaeans, whose combined navies met and defeated the Etruscan forces in the Bay of Naples. This defeat caused the Etruscans to lose much of their influence in Italy; they lost control of the seas and their territories were eventually absorbed piecemeal by the Romans, Samnites and Gauls. The Syracusans dedicated a captured Etruscan helmet at the great panhellenic sanctuary at Olympia, a piece of armour found in the German excavations there. Perhaps remembering this bitter defeat and hoping to avenge their ancestors, the Etruscans would later readily join the ill-fated Athenian expedition against Syracuse in 415 BC.
Lot 492
L. Marcius Philippus AR Denarius. Rome, 56 BC. Head of Ancus Marcius right, wearing diadem; lituus behind, ANCVS below / Aqueduct on which stands equestrian statue, flower at horse’s feet; PHILIPPVS to left, AQVA MAR ligate within arches of aqueduct. Crawford 425/1; RSC Marcia 28. 3.91g, 21mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone. Well centred and struck on a very large flan. From the Eucharius Collection.
Lot 886
Chile, Colonial, Ferdinand VII (King of Spain, 1808-1833) AR 8 Reales. Santiago de Chile, 1811 So-FJ. Francisco Rodriguez Brochero and Jose Maria de Bobadilla, assayers. •FERDIN•VII•DEI•GRATIA•, laureate bust right, wearing Admiral's Frock Coat, 1811 below / •HISPAN•ET•IND•REX•SO•8R•F•J•, crowned coat-of-arms flanked by composite columns with encircling banner. ME 15846; KM 75. 27.03g, 41mm, 12h. Good Very Fine. Sharply struck, has seen light circulation. Pleasing light cabinet tone with golden iridescence over lustrous metal. Following the abdication of his father Charles IV of Spain after an uprising against him, Ferdinand VII ascended the throne on the 19 March 1808 and promptly turned to the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte for support, a mistake that resulted in his own abdication less than two months later. Napoleon installed his brother Joseph as king of Spain, a choice which proved unpopular with the Spanish people who organised juntas across the kingdom and colonies in opposition to the new French king. Although Ferdinand did not officially become king again until 11 December 1813, throughout the period of his abdication Spain fought for her independence in the Peninsular War, the juntas minting coinage in his name. The bust on the present piece is one of the 'Imaginary Busts' created by the assayers of the colonial mints in the absence of dies showing his true image, and presents Ferdinand laureate and wearing an Admiral's Frock Coat. Used only on 8 Reales of 1808-1811, 2 Reales of 1810 and 1811, and gold 8 Escudos of 1808-1811 the 'Admiral's Bust' is an interesting and unusual rarity rooted in colonial history.
Lot 64
Sicily, Syracuse AR Tetradrachm. Time of Agathokles, circa 310-306/5 BC. Head of Kore right, wearing earring, necklace and wreath of grain ears; KOPAΣ to left / Nike standing right, wearing drapery that falls to waist, erecting trophy to right; AI monogram to lower left, triskeles to right, AΓAΘOKΛEOΣ in exergue. Ierardi 95 (O19/R61); Gulbenkian 336 (same dies); SNG ANS 664; SNG Lloyd 1488. 17.24g, 26mm, 11h. Extremely Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone. With the usurpation of Agathokles in 317 BC, Syracuse once more monopolised the right of coinage for the whole of Sicily, even more distinctly than in the time of Dionysios. Yet the reign of Agathokles, as noted by Malcolm Bell (Morgantine Studies I, 1981) “was a watershed for the arts in Sicily, just as it was for politics. The change from a conservative late-classical style to the new modes of the early-Hellenistic period came very quickly, within the space of a decade, and it coincided with the replacement of democratic government by the new monarchy. It is clearly perceptible in the coins that... document the full acceptance of early-Hellenistic style.” Depicted often as a cruel and unscrupulous adventurer and tyrant, Agathokles achieved little of lasting historical importance; indeed after his death anarchy erupted both in Syracuse, where a damnatio memoriae was decreed, and in other places that had been under his rule (Diod. Sic. 21. 18). Nonetheless, his patronage of the arts left a legacy of beauty as embodied by a small number of surviving works of art from his reign, and smaller but no less wonderful objects such as this stunning coin.
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Lot 635
Marc Antony AR Denarius. Cyrene, 31 BC. L. Pinarius Scarpus, Imperator. M•ANTO•COS•III•IMP•[IIII], head of Jupiter Ammon right / Victory, naked to the waist, walking right holding wreath and palm; ANTONIO AVG downwards before, SCARPVS IMP downwards behind. Crawford 546/2a; CRI 390; RSC 1. 3.40g, 19mm, 12h. Good Very Fine, banker's mark on reverse, attractive deep old cabinet tone. Ex Marc Poncin Collection, CNG MBS 72, 14 June 2006, lot 1354; Ex William C. Boyd Collection, Baldwin's 42, 26 September 2005, lot 130; Purchased from W.S. Lincoln, July 1905.
Lot 36
Bruttium, Kroton AR Stater. Circa 530-500 BC. Tripod, legs terminating in lion's paws, with ornaments on and serpents rising from the bowl; QPO to left / Incuse tripod, legs terminating in lion's feet, with ornaments on and serpents rising from the bowl. SNG Ashmolean 1463; SNG ANS 230; HN Italy 2075. 8.08g, 30mm, 12h. Good Extremely Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone. From the Louvière Collection, Belgium, privately purchased c.1970s.
Lot 412
Augustus AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm of Pergamum, Mysia. Circa 19-18 BC. IMP•IX•TR•PO•V•, bare head right / Triumphal Arch of Augustus, surmounted by charioteer in facing quadriga, an aquila before each side wall; IMP•IX•TR•POT•V• on entablature, S•P•R• SIGNIS RECEPTIS in three lines below. RPC I 2218; RIC 510; RSC 298; BMCRE 703 = BMCRR East 310; CNR 809/2 (this coin). 11.91g, 25mm, 12h. Good Very Fine. Old cabinet tone. Ex Richard Prideaux Collection, Triton XI, 8 January 2008, lot 714; Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 5, 25 February 1992, lot 401; Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 2, 21 February 1990, lot 513; Ex Crippa FPL, April 1971, lot 362.
Lot 487
L. Manlius Torquatus AR Denarius. Rome, 65 BC. Ivy-wreathed head of Sybil right; SIBYLLA below neck truncation / Tripod, on which stands amphora flanked by two stars; L•TORQVAT downwards to left, III•VIR upwards to right, all within torque. Crawford 411/1b; RSC Manlia 12. 3.95g, 18mm, 5h. Good Extremely Fine. A superb example of the type, with a deep old cabinet tone. Destroyed during the civil wars under the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 83 BC, the rebuilt Temple of Jupiter in Rome was dedicated in 69 BC, though some literary sources report that it was not until the late 60's that work was actually finished. The Sibylline Books, volumes of prophecies purchased by the last king of Rome and consulted only in times of emergency, had also been lost in the destruction. Keen to replace them the Senate sent envoys in 76 to collect similar oracular sayings from all over the known world. Lucius Manlius Torquatus had become consul with Lucius Aurelius Cotta only after having had the consuls-elect for 65 BC condemned for bribery, one of whom was the nephew of the dictator Sulla. The types chosen for this denarius, readily recognisable to the citizens of Rome, would have brought to mind the dictatorship of Sulla and the scandal of the elections and placed Torquatus as the saviour of Rome against such men, for the torque that surrounds the reverse type humorously recalls his famous ancestor from whom the family agnomen stemmed.
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