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Click here to subscribeA Moroccan bracelet silver coloured metal, neillo and enamel, 6.5cm wide, an Omani hollow spiked rattle bracelet, a Bedouin bracelet with eleven mounds, two Yemen bracelets with turquoise beads and three Nubian twist design bracelets, the larger with coin ends. (8) Provenance Professor D Abouseif Collection, London.
An Egyptian coin head ornament pierced and bound with cotton and silk, with a button clasp, 56cm long, a Yemen belt box, pierced and engraved a lion with script below and to the hinged cover, 7.5cm wide, various triangular necklace pendants including an Egyptian pair of embossed birds, a rectangular pendant, an Omani necklace with two red glass beads, a Bedouin necklace and two filigree necklace oval pendants. (17) Provenance Professor D Abouseif Collection, London.
Thirteen Libyan hilal pendants silver coloured metal with pierced and engraved decoration, some with hallmarks, the largest 3.5cm wide, a Libya star and circle pendant, with a hallmark, four Nubian imitation coin pendants and two Red Sea area pendants. (20) Provenance Professor D Abouseif Collection, London.
A George III silver toddy ladle, relief embossed twisted floral decoration with inset coin bowl and twisted whale bone handle, length 38cm Very good original condition, no damage or restoration, rim of bowl is very slightly split near handle and bowl has numerous small dents all over, silver part of handle has engraved initials, handle in good condition, unmarked
The Tragara Press, Edinburgh 8 works, comprising Weeks, Donald Frederick William Rolf & Editors. 1984. Number 17 of 110 copies, original purple wrappers; Rolfe, F.W. and Grant Richards. The Reverse Side of the Coin. 1974, original marbled wrappers; Delaney, J.G.P. Some letters from Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon to 'Michael Field'. 1979, number 13 of 145 copies, original quarter cloth and marbled sides; [Sims] My Favourite Purchase from Geore Sims. 1998. Limited to 20 copies, proof copy, original marbled wrappers; Fuller, Roy. Twelfth Night. 1985, limited to 135 copies, unnumbered, original green folder, marked "collected proofs" on upper wrapper; O'Sullivan, V. Marchel Schwob. 2004, limited to 75 copies, copy J of 15 on Zerkall mould made paper, original marbled wrappers; Reed, Jeremy. Baron Jacques d'Adelsward Fersen. Limited to 75 copies, copy H of 8 lettered copies on green paper, signed by author, original marbled wrappers; Hughes, L.K. Strange Bedfellows: W.E. Henley and Feminist Fashion History. 1997, Privately Printed, Limited to 75 copies, number 23 of 25 in marbled wrappers (8)
Of Australian Transportation Interest.:, recently come to light from an old coin collection. A copper Transportation token for William Wilcox and Jane Wilcox, named as per title over dove, sun, moon and initials 'WW' above an image of a standing rigged ship, obverse, crown flanked by initials 'WW' over verse 'Remember O How Happy I Shall Be When I Get My Liberty', with the word 'Love' inscribed over two doves, 35mm diameter, 2.8mm thick. *Notes- Known as either 'Transportation Tokens', 'Convict Tokens' or 'Leaden Hearts' these small personal and emotional tokens were given by convicts transported to Australia as a memento to family or loved ones left behind. They were made by both amateur and professional engravers by smoothing over a coin and stippling the decoration. The National Museum of Australia holds the world's largest collection of convict tokens.* Note William Wilcox was given a life sentence of Transportation at Stafford Assizes and was transported along with 256 other convicts aboard the Triton which set sail from England on 4th August 1842, arriving at Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) 19th December 1842.
A small collection of British and world coins as taken from circulation, including two halfpenny Conder-type tokens Coventry (1792) and “Britannia rules the waves”, some British pre-1947 silver, a 1762 worn copper medal of George III and Queen Charlotte, a Uruguay silver 1 peso 1942, a South Africa half crown 1896 and a Belgium Leopold I silver 5 franc coin ex-mount, date obscured., and an Encyclopaedia of Postage Stamps of Algeria, two vols, boxed with cd..
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