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Lot 57
Roman Sabina - Pudicitia Denarius131 AD, Rome mint. Obv: SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG P F legend with diademed and draped bust right. Rev: PVCIDITIA legend with Pudicitia standing left drawing out folds of drapery from dress, left hand at side. 3.07 grams. Sear 3922; RIC 407; BMC 911. [No Reserve] Very fine. Scarce.Starting Price: £5
Lot 81
Roman Magnus Maximus - Contemporary Plated SolidusCirca 387-388 AD. Obv: DN MAG MA-XIMVS PF AVG legend with rosette-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right. Rev: RESTITVTOR REIPVBLICAE legend with emperor, in military dress, standing facing, head right, holding Victory on globe and labarum, star in left field; mintmark SMTR in exergue. 3.17 grams. Imitative of Sear 4195; RIC IX 76. A Germanic copy of a solidus, struck in silver and gilded.[No Reserve] Near as struck, repaired. Interesting.Starting Price: £5
Lot 155
Egyptian Large Amulet of SekhmetLate Period, 500-332 BC. A large and fine blue-glazed composition amulet depicting the lioness-headed goddess Sekhmet, seated on an openwork throne, wearing a long dress and tripartite wig, with her left hand held to her belly. 17 grams, 66 mm (1 1/2"). Ex Dr. Peter Gray collection. Dr. Grey (d.1990) was a pioneer of mummy x-rays. Fine condition.Starting Price: £550
Lot 363
Byzantine Gold Glass-Inlaid Dress Pin5th-8th century AD. A lozenge-section dress pin with gold sheet cells to the upper end comprising a discoid lower with blue glass inlay and pelletted border, two similar above with red inlay, an elliptical panel with central blue glass inlay and red glass to the outer cells (one absent) and a gold beast-head terminal with granulated detail and gold ring. 4.24 grams, 63 mm (2 1/2"). Formerly the property of a Mayfair gentleman, acquired 1980s. Fine condition.Starting Price: £200
Lot 420
Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Dress PinBronze Age, 1250-650 BC. A cast bronze dress pin, the shaft round-section and tapering, the knop head with two bands of eight projecting lugs and domed finial. 122 grams, 32 cm (12 1/2"). UK art market, acquired prior to 1980. Fine condition.Starting Price: £100
Lot 83
*Advertising. Fan advertising Parfum Floramye, L.T. Piver, Parfumerie, Paris, c.1910, folding paper fan, the obverse with chromo. illust. of a lady in long dress and hat reclining on a cliff by the sea, with a little dog, by Abel Faivre, text and floral decoration on verso, mounted on wooden sticks, 25cm (9.75ins), together with Fan advertising Gao, L.T. Piver, Paris, c.1925, folding paper fontage fan, the obverse with a colour pochoir design by Yvonne Preverand de Sonneville, of a lady in riding habit leading a horse, surrounded by floral decoration, verso with text and illust. of saddle, crop, and top hat, lightly creased to top edge, mounted on wooden sticks, 25cm (9.75ins). (2)
Lot 114
*Courting. La Ruse d`Amour, French, c.1800, folding paper fan, the leaf stipple-engraved in grey and red with a young lady in an empire line dress pursued by a retinue of putti issuing from a thatched beehive, from behind which emerges the lady`s suitor, titled to lower margin, outlines highlighted in contemp. silver paint (tarnished), remains of a few sequins, the wooden sticks lacquered red and with an ivory filet on the guardsticks, 24cm (9.5ins). (1)
Lot 133
*Ladies Telegraph. For Corresponding at a Distance, Invented and Engraved by Robert Rowe, and Entered at Stationer`s Hall, Published by M. Stunt, No.191, Strand, Opposite St. Clements Church Yard, April 20th 1798, folding paper fan, the leaf engraved on the obverse with Questions and Answers and Method of using the Telegraph, with the alphabet along top edge, each letter with corresponding moveable tab, with hand-coloured key to the alphabet below, verso with each section painted a colour, mounted on bone sticks decorated in silver, guardsticks hand-painted with flower sprays, 25.5cm (10ins). Not in the Schreiber Collection. A rare and charming fan, designed to allow two ladies, though seated at some distance from one another, to converse. When a tab, denoting a letter, is moved upwards, a different colour appears on the vertical stripe on the back of the fan, and so whole sentences can be spelt out. There are also instructions on how to ask and answer `the most familiar and occurrent questions`, i.e., the letters C and D used together mean `I admire the Elegance of your Dress , where was it made?`, and D and E mean `I am glad you like it, I will tell you by the Telegraph`. (1)
Lot 170
*Mechanical cards. A mechanical `tag` card by Mansell, c. 1850, featuring a Father with a baby on his knee, `Happy father, what delight, with thy darling children bright, who can envy not, and see, thy sweet Baby on thy knee`, when tag is pulled Father puts baby into cot; another mechanical `tag` depicting a trooper who cleans his rifle; a lift-up flap card `the Rifleman`s Kit` which reveals a lady in a crinoline dress, both 7 x 18cm by Mansell, c. 1840; plus twelve other cards mounted on board, hinged by Meek, Mullord, etc., applied scraps, flowers, silks, c. 1840-50. (15)
Lot 128
A Heubach Koppelsdorf bisque headed doll, numbered 321.0, together with two other German dolls. (3) CONDITION REPORT: The second large doll marked 'A.M. Koppelsdorf Germany 1330 A12.M'. hair is loose, nibbles to the feet and finger areas. The smaller doll dressed in Scottish dress, marked Germany, missing a shoe and loose hair, losses to the paint to rear of the head but generally fair.
Lot 686
A 19th century cavalry sword with wooden and wirework handle (lacking scabbard), another similar with leather covered scabbard and two 20th century dress swords (4). CONDITION REPORT: The two with shiny scabbards appear to be reproductions. The leather scabbard is scuffed, no significant damage noted.
Lot 290
*Costume and Trades. A mixed collection of approx. sixty engravings, early 19th century, including twenty aquatints with contemp. hand colouring, originally published in John Murray’s ‘Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English...., ’ [1814], all with pages of descriptive text, together with forty aquatints with contemp. hand colouring, originally published in Charles Hamilton Smith’s ‘Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland’ [1814], occ. duplicates, plus three caricatures by Richard Dighton, various sizes and condition (approx.60)
Lot 49
Bland (Humphrey). A Treatise of Military Discipline: in which is Laid down and Explained The Duty of the Officer and Soldier, Through Several Branches of the Service, 8th ed., 1759, seven folding engraved plates, contemp. calf, rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with Frederick II, King of Prussia. Military Instruction from the Late King of Prussia, to his Generals...Translated from the French by Major Foster, 2 parts in one vol., 4th ed., [1797], half title, folding plans, modern half calf, 8vo, and War Office (pub.). Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field-Exercise and Movements, of His Majesty’s Forces, 1804, 16 folding engraved plates, contemp. calf, joints cracked, 8vo, plus HMSO (pub.). Dress Regulations for the Officers of the Army, 1891, later cloth gilt, 8vo, plus three others related (7)
Lot 1083
Six Unboxed Sets/Part Sets of Britains Hollowcast Soldiers of the World - No.214 Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Winter Dress (nine figures), No.241 Chinese Infantry with Long Knives (five figures), No.1542 New Zealand Infantry in Service Dress (seven figures), No.186 Mexican Soldiers (six figures), No.230 USA Sailors Marching at Slope (8 figures), No.548 US West Point Cadets Marching Rifles at the Slope (8 figures)
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