A 14K gold ladies pocket watch, the white enamel dial having Roman numeral hourly markers with minute track border, all framed with ornate pattern border with a similar border to centre of dial, subsidiary dial to six o`clock position, case exterior having ornate design, case marked `14K`, together with a silver cased gents pocket watch hallmarked Birmingham 1900, white metal filigree cigarette case, .925 silver pen knife with ornate pattern body, and a white metal stick pin. (5)
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A gents 9ct gold cased J W Benson crown wind pocket watch, the white enamel dial having black Roman numeral hourly markers with minute track border and subsidiary dial to six o`clock position, the inner case engraved `presented by the directors of A D Winbush & Son Ltd to Wiliam Osborne in recognition of 25 years faithful service March 1942, case hallmarked Birmingham 1928.
Two gents silver cased pocket watches, one by Benson with black Roman numeral hourly markers with minute track border and subsidiary dial to six o`clock position, case hallmarked London 1887, together with another similar unnamed pocket watch, case hallmarked Chester 1897, both having keys. (2)
A 19th Century silver cased full hunter pocket watch with verge movement, the white enamel dial having hourly Roman numeral markers with a minute track border with a large subsidiary dial to six o`clock position, the plain case exterior having an engraved shied to the lid, the verge movement set with a diamond end stone marked `Jas Moc Cabe, Royal Exchange, no. 12619, London`. Case hallmarked London 1827, complete with key.
A group of three chrome plated military pocket stop watches, each having black Arabic numeral markers with seconds and minute track border with a similar red inner markers with subsidiary dial to twelve o`clock position, each dial marked with crows foot with one also marked Nero Lemania, each case rear marked with crows foot and numbered W10/6645-99-521-3169.
A gentleman`s silver cased full hunter pocket watch, the white circular dial having black Roman numeral hourly marker with minute track border and subsidiary dial to six o`clock, case lid having cartouche to centre, hallmarked Chester 1888, with key. Fitted to a silver chain with silver plated clip, having a silver and gold faced fob.
A sterling silver cased Waltham wrist watch movement, the white circular dial having black Arabic numeral hourly markers with minute track border with subsidiary to six o`clock, the case front having enamelled Arabic numeral markers with an inner minute track and the rear engraved `A.C.R. Robertson from his fellow workers March 29th 1916, together with a WW1 chrome plated crown wind Leonidas pocket watch, rear marked with crows foot military mark and G.S.T.P. N.8842, together with part of a white metal watch chain. (3)
A parcel lot of watches including a silver cased full hunter pocket watch, the white enamel dial having hourly black Roman numeral markers with subsidiary dial to six o`clock position, case hallmarked London 1879, Smiths chrome plated crown wind pocket watch, together with two ladies wrist watches and Garrard chrome plated gents wrist watch. (5)
A 9ct gold cased Garrad gents manual wind wrist watch, the circular silver tone dial having black Arabic numeral hourly markers with minute track border with subsidiary dial to six o`clock, the case rear engraved `For Dunlop Service G Martin`, fitted to a gold plated expanding bracelet, together with a gents Longines manual wind wrist watch, the circular white dial having gold tone Arabic quarterly hour markers with batons between with minute track border and subsidiary dial to six o`clock, fitted to a bi-colour expanding bracelet. (2)
A silver cased travel clock with the body decorated with floral and scroll design, the white enamel face having Arabic numeral hourly markers with minute track border and subsidiary dial to six o`clock with a gold tone bezel with zig-zag design, hallmarked Birmingham 1900, possibly by Douglas Clock Co. Housed in it`s original case with two hinged doors to top.
A 9ct gold penknife, initialled, and a similar silver fruit knife (2) Condition report Gold knife hallmarks rubbed. Hallmarked Sheffield 1918. Makers mark B & O (?), hallmarks rubbed. initialled, casing worn, knocked and bumped. Blades steel, which currently I cannot open Silver knife Engraved RENÉE. Some scratches to mother of pearl but no nasty cracks or chips. Silver blade tarnished, with ware, hallmarked Sheffield 1928, makers mark W N
A gold, white stone and garnet ring, and a diamond and sapphire half hoop ring (2) Condition report Report by NG Garnet Ring: WHITE STONES IN THIS RING ARE NOT DIAMONDS. Marks rubbed, probably reads 9ct. Shank worn. All stones present, no obvious replacement. Approx. size N. Diamond and sapphire half hoop ring: white coloured metal mount unmarked. Colour of sapphires vary. Light wear to mount. Approx. size O.
**A GREEK BRONZE HELMET, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC of elongated domed form with ridged top and waisted support, the brim with downturned edge, together with a group of detached fragments 20 cm; 7 7/8 in high Provenance Sumner Healey, New York, 6 June 1932, $45.00 JWHA Inv. No. 1735 See O. Gamber 1978, p. 287.
**A STEEL TARGET WITH EMBOSSED AND CHASED DECORATION, 19TH CENTURY, AFTER AN ORIGINAL BY THE MILANESE MASTER `MP`, CIRCA 1560-5 of convex circular form with a boldly-roped inward turn at its edge accompanied by holes for lining-rivets, pierced to the inside of the latter with four further pairs of holes for the attachment of enarmes and embossed and chased overall in high relief within a rectangular central frame with a representation of the Vestal Virgin Tuccia proving herself innocent of the charge of being unchaste by carrying water in a sieve, and bordered above and below the frame by scrolls involving in each case a grotesque mask and fruits, and at each side of it by a column bearing a male herm and a further grotesque mask 58.5 cm; 23 in diameter Provenance Giulia P. Morosini, sold American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, 10-15 October 1932, lot 277 JWHA Inv. No. 1811 Exhibited R. K. White Co., 27 July - 7 August 1961 Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 26-28 September 1968; 26-28 September 1969 Beaumont Art Museum, Texas, 5 December 1977 - 23 January 1978 Monmouth Museum, New Jersey, 27 February - 6 May 1978 The shield is a copy of an original in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Acc. No. 3. O.6145, signed by the maker `MP`, perhaps identifiable as Matteo Piatti, a member of a distinguished Milanese family of armourers (Godoy 2003, No. 28, pp. 158-9 & 437-8). A shield of the same period in the Museo delle Armi Luigi Marzol, Inv. No. 373, signed BP (Rossi & Carpegna 1869, cat. No. 130, p. 59; and Godoy 2003, No. 25, pp. 144-7 & 431-30) could represent the signature of his relation Bartolomeo.
**AN ENGLISH ELECTROTYPE COPY, CIRCA 1880, OF A NORTH ITALIAN STEEL TARGET WITH EMBOSSED, PUNCHED AND GILT DECORATION, MILANESE, CIRCA 1560 of convex circular form with a turned edge accompanied by star-headed lining-rivets, fitted to the inside of them with various similar and plain rivets for the attachment of a pad for the arm and enarmes, and embossed overall in high relief, within a border of trophies of arms and oval cartouches enclosing nude classical subjects, with representations of Judith and Holofernes, David and Goliath, and the victory of Saul, all enhanced with fine punched detail and extensively gilt against a silvered ground, and fitted at the rear with the oval seal of the Elkington company bearing at its centre the royal cipher VR 57.5 cm; 22 3/4 in diameter Provenance Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 15 November 1956, part of lot 166 JWHA Inv. No. 3389 Exhibited Oneida County Jr. Museum, Utica, New York, 11 September 1967 - 8 January 1968 Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 26-28 September 1968; 26-29 September 1975; 25-26 September 1981 Poughkeepsie Junior League, New York, 2 March - 3 May 1969 Children`s Museum, Hartford Connecticut, March - April 1976 Beaumont Art Museum, Texas, 5 December 1977 - 23 January 1978 Schnectady, New York, 4 June - 13 September 1979 The electrotype was made by Elkington and Co Ltd of Birmingham from an original shield that was at that time in the Imperial collections of the Tsarkoe Selo near St Peterburg and is now in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Acc. No. 3. O.6161 (Gille & Rockstuhl 1835-53, pt, 21, pl. CXXII; and Godoy 2003, No. 22, pp. 134-5 & 428-30).
**AN ENGLISH ELECTROTYPE COPY, CIRCA 1880, OF A NORTH ITALIAN STEEL TARGET WITH EMBOSSED, GILT AND DAMASCENED DECORATION, BY THE MASTER `MP`, CIRCA 1560-5 of convex circular form with an elaborately decorated turn at its edge and embossed overall in high relief within a rectangular central frame with a representation of the Vestal Virgin Tuccia proving herself innocent of the charge of being unchaste by carrying water in a sieve, and bordered above and below the frame by scrolls involving in each case a grotesque mask and fruits, and at each side of it by a column bearing a male herm and a further grotesque mask, all partly gilt and enhanced by the chasing and gold-damascening of its fine detail, and fitted at the rear with the oval seal of the Elkington company bearing at its centre the royal cipher VR, and the copyright label of the Museum of Science and Art 54.5 cm; 21 1/4 in diameter Provenance Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 15 November 1956, lot 166 JWHA Inv. No. 3134 Exhibited Forest Grove Junior High School, Worcester, Massachusetts, 13 April - 2 May 1964 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 6 January - 21 February 1966. Oneida County Junior Museum, New York, 11 September 1967 - 8 January 1968. Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 26-28 September 1968 Poughkeepsie Junior League, New York, 2 March - 3 May 1969 Rensselaer County Junior Museum, Troy, New York, October 1974 - 5 September 1975 Children`s Museum, Hartford Connecticut, March - April 1976 The electrotype was made by Elkington and Co Ltd of Birmingham. It is possibly the Elkington product referred to by the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum), London, in its `Inventory of Reproductions in Metal` of about 1901, p. 48, as Acc. No. 1884-59. The electrotype is taken from an original shield in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Acc. No. 3. O.6145, see footnote to lot 228.
EUROPEAN COINS FROM THE ÅKE LINDÉN COLLECTION, SWEDEN Oscar II, Silver 2-Kronor, 1878 EB, head left, legend reads oscar ii sveriges o., rev crowned arms with supporters (SM 46; KM 742). Lightly bagmarked, otherwise choice extremely fine and scarce. ex B. Ahlström Mynthandel Auction 40, 14 November 1989, lot 1460 mintage 193,000
WORLD COINS, MALTA Antoine de Paule (c.1551-1623-1636), Westfriesland ½-Leeuwendaalder, 1618, rev countermaked with the de Paule arms (RS pl.LXXXIX,4, this coin; cf Delm 873; Ver 66.5). Small test cut at 2 o’clock on the reverse but host coin good fine, the countermark extremely fine, extremely rare, especially on a fractional host coin.
WORLD COINS, SIERRA LEONE Copper Cent, 1791, die variety with two grass blades above the line of the hill behind the lion, 29mm (FT 9; KM 1). Edge knock at 6 o’clock, about uncirculated with some original lustre. ex Heritage auction 410, lot 14864 ex Arielle Collection, Baldwin’s Auction 85, September 2013, lot 3234
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, ITALY Francesco I Sforza (1401-1466), 4th Duke of Milan, Lead Memorial Medal (1466), by Sperandio da Mantova (c.1425-1504), bust three-quarters right, FRANCISCVS SFORTIA VICE COMES DVX MEDIOLANI QVARTVS, rev façade of a Renaissance building, OPVS SPERANDEI, 90mm (Hill, Corpus 361; Pollard [2007] 94; Arm I, 74, 42). An original cast of a rare medal, but in well-worn condition, knocks to high spots and pierced at 12 o’clock and 6 o’clock. The portrait seems to be based on a painted portrait (now lost), whilst the reverse is believed to be the design for a memorial chapel by the Florentine architect and sculptor, Antonio di Pietro Averlino (c.1400-c.1469). His most famous project was the bronze doors for the old St Peter’s Basilica, completed in 1445. More relevant to the medal is his design for Sforzinda, the (unbuilt) plan for the first ideal city of the Renaissance.
NUMISMATIC BOOKS, ORIENTAL COINS Hingston Quiggin, A, A Survey of Primitive Money, (1949) Reprinted, 1963, 344pp, folding map, 32 plates, cloth, jacket, good; Wieschhoff, H, A, Primitive Money, University of Pennsylvania, 1945, 43pp, b/w plates, card covers, very good; Schulman, H, Primitive Money (Odd and Curious Monies), New York, 1967/68, 93pp, illustrated, card covers, very good; Gibbs, H, Odd and curious Money of the World, published by Hans Schulman, New York, 1946, 52pp, line drawings and illustrations, paper covers, good; Johannson, S O, Nigerian Currencies, Manillas, Cowries and Others, Second Edition, 1967, 57pp, folding plates, tables and illustrations, card covers, very good. (5)
NUMISMATIC BOOKS, ORIENTAL COINS Jen, D, Chinese Currency Identification and Price Guide, Krause Publications, 2000, 341pp, line illustrations, card covers, good; Burger, W, Ch’ing Cash Until 1735, Taiwan, 1976, 126pp, complete with folding plates of rubbings of coins, casebound, near fine; Schjöth, F, Chinese Currency, (1929) Reprinted 1965, 92pp, 132 plates of drawings, price supplement loosely inserted, cloth, very good; Cresswell, O D, Chinese Cash, New York/London, 1979, 120pp, card, good. (4)
†BRITISH COINS, HAMMERED GOLD SOVEREIGNS, Mary (1553-1554), Fine Gold Sovereign of Thirty Shillings, Tower mint, dated 1553 in Roman numerals at end of obverse legend (issue period 20 August 1553 to 24 December 1554), mintmark pomegranate in legend both sides, crowned full figure of Queen seated facing on ornate throne, holding orb and sceptre, portcullis below extending to rim, ornate throne back with pellet sides to back and large side pillars, multi arc tressure and beaded circle surrounding, pellets in arcs, trefoils on cusps, mintmark pomegranate after Queen’s name, annulet stops in legend, legend reads :MARIA:+: D’: G’: AnG’o FRA Z: hIB’: REGInA: m:D:LIII, outer beaded circle surrounding, rev quartered shield of arms upon Tudor rose, surrounded by beaded and linear tressures of ten arcs, each cusp overlaid with alternating leaf and lis fleury device, linear circle surrounding, legend reads A: DnO+ FACTV: EST: ISTV’o Z: EST: MIRA: In: OCVL’: nRIS’: with pomegranate between O and F, outer linear circle surrounding, 15.14g (Schneider 704; North 1956; S 2488). Small short crack at centre of the obverse under sceptre hand and at upper left quarter of shield on the reverse, otherwise struck with a good portrait, toned, about very fine. ex Collection of a Southern Gentleman, Stacks, New York, 7 December 1994, lot 2446 ex St James’s Auction 5, 27 September 2006, lot 276 Queen Mary issued all her gold coinage to the fine standard of 23 carats and 3½ grains (0.995 fine) and to the weight of 240 grains (15.552g) as originally set by her grandfather, King Henry VII. Mary’s HAMMERED GOLD SOVEREIGNS, are the only issue of this hammered gold coin denomination that carry an actual date, albeit in Roman numerals, either 1553 or 1554.
A COLLECTION FORMED BY PAUL STEVENS, SULTANATES Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, Gold Tanka, Hadrat Dehli, AH 722, titles in double square border, rev titles and single circular border, 11.01g (G&G D301). Almost complete marginal legend, edge paired at 12 o’clock or mount removed, shroff mark on the reverse and deposit, otherwise good very fine, scarce.
COINS, EUROPEAN TERRITORIES IRELAND George III (1760-1820), Bank of Ireland Coinage, Silver 30-Pence, 1808, laureate and draped bust right, date below, rev Hibernia seated facing left, top of harp points to O in TOKEN (DF 619; S 6616A; KM Tn4). Semi prooflike uncirculated, a few light hairlines but very pleasant.
COINS, ASIAN TERRITORIES, SUMATRA East India Company, Copper Keping, AH1202 / 1787, obv the balemark of the EIC and date, rev date and denomination in Malay (Pr 19; KM 257.1). Numerous rust marks with a touch of porosity in the balemark, die break on the reverse from 1 oclock to 3 oclock, otherwise semi-prooflike, about mint state. Here the reverse inscription Sakeping, is broken up in the centre, so that the writing doesnt flow without a break. This is the only one of these four 1787 pieces that show this.
ROLEX GMT Master II « Sultan » version Yellow gold and stainless steel gent’s wristwatch. Ref 16713, year 1992, featuring a very rare original golden dial with ruby index at 12’, 6’, and 9’ o’clock, and diamonds index at every hour. Date at 3’oclock. Automatic self-winding superlative chronometer mechanism. Mint condition, grade 1. Comes with full set of goodies, original box, and papers.
PATEK PHILIPPE vintage Manufactured in 1944. 18kt yellow gold case with alligator strap and 18kt gold “ardillon” buckle signed Patek Philippe. Silvered dial featuring Arabic numerals at 12 and 6 o’clock. Caliber 13. Lever escapement. Chronograph timer meter and tachymeter scale. Comes with complete official “Extrait des Registres” (archival certificate) from Patek Philippe manufacture, dated November 2002, attesting the watch is in perfect original conditions. Ref. 130.
CUERVOS Y SOBRINOS Model “autorecargante robust”, ref. 2802, automatic self-winding mechanism, and transparent case back, featuring date at 6 o’clock, D: 41mm. Light brown alligator strap with stainless steel folding clasp. Comes in an original magnificent wooden hand-made cigar box. New and unworn.
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