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A Japanese wood netsuke 19th Century youth astride a standing buffalo, on oval base, and a miniature suzunibako decorated with a cherry branch in silver hiramaki-e on an allover kirikane ground, 19th Century, 4.5cm x 4.2cm x 1.5cm, and a miniature Chinese enamel vase (3)
A Japanese Bingo Katana Edo Period (19th Century) signed BIngo (No) Kuni (No) Ju Masanori Saku, Sugata [configuration]: shinogi zukuri with o-kissaki and wide mihaba overall,Kitae [forging pattern]: possibly ko-mokume, Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha, nioi-deki, Boshi [tip]: yaki-zume, Nakago [tang]: ubu, kirijiri with three mekugi-ana, Habaki [collar]: silver, Horimono [carving]: deep boshi on both sides, Koshirae [mounting]: a 'bird's-head' tachi koshirae, the menuki of gilt onagadori [long-tailed bird], the kabutogane [pommel] of a silver ho-o bird's head, silver mokko tsuba engraved with onagadori, the scabbard of gold nashiji [sprinkled gold lacquer] with gold-outlined kiri mon [paulownia family crests] and onagadori, engraved silvered tachi saya adornments, 71.8 cm. (blade); 104.5 cm. long (koshirae) Provenance: The Dolphyn Collection
A Japanese Aikuchi Tanto Nanboku-cho period (14th Century) unsigned o-suriage shinogi zukuri tanto from a tachi blade, silver-clad habaki, scabbard with fine aogai nashiji, lacquered tsuka carved in semblance of rattan or cherry bark binding, long silver kojiri, matching kozuka and waribashi with gold foil on an ishimeji ground, the kozuka with sagari fuji mon and the wari kogai with Shonai katabami mon, gold lacquered sagari-fuji [wisteria] mon on the horn kashira Provenance: The Dolphyn Collection
Umayyad, dirham, without mint-name, 79h, 2.41g (Klat 1, same dies), evenly clipped, about very fine and extremely rare. Although reformed gold dinars had been struck at Damascus since 77h, it appears that production of the related silver coinage did not begin until two years later. The westernmost of the early dirham mints, Damascus had no tradition of striking silver coinage - in contrast with most of the dirham mints in the eastern part of the Islamic world, most of which had previously issued Arab-Sasanian drachms. At Damascus, therefore, the obvious prototype for the first post-Reform dirhams will have been the associated mintless dinars then being struck there, rather than Arab-Sasanian types which almost always include both mint and date. This may explain why the very first of the new silver coins from Damascus - including the present coin - omit the mint-name, just as the gold dinars do. With more than forty other silver mints then active, however, the inconsistency of having mintless dirhams struck at Damascus alone must soon have become apparent, and the mint-name was quickly incorporated on all other silver struck there from 79h until the fall of the dynasty in 132h.
Umayyad, dirham, Dashtaq 113h, obv., in margin: bismillah duriba hadha al-dirham bi-Dashtaq…, 2.86g (cf Klat 333.b [89h], 338.b [94h]), some die rust, good very fine and extremely rare. There is little doubt that ‘Dashtaq’ is an engraving error for ‘Dimashq’, with the letter mim replaced by a ‘tooth.’ This is the third recorded year in which the error is known, and on all known specimens not only is the calligraphy identical to contemporary Damascus coins but the annulet patterns and any diacritical points also match regular Damascus dirhams of the same date. It may also be noted that the date of this specimen – 113h – is a year in which very few other Umayyad silver mints outside Wasit and Damascus were operational.
Umayyad Governors of Sind, Hakam b. ‘Awana (d. 122h), qandhari dirham, obv., la ilaha | illa Allah | triplet of pellets, rev., amr bihi | al-Hakam | ibn ‘Awana, 0.48g (cf Stephen Album Rare Coins auction 28, 18 May 2017, lot 2122, same obverse die), cleaned, flan slightly ragged, good very fine and excessively rare. The local Umayyad coinage of Sind has recently been discussed by Lutz Ilisch (‘Reichswährung und Regionalwährung nach der Münzreform ‘Abd al-Maliks im islamischen Osten,’ in Die Grenzen der Welt: Arabica et Iranica ad honorem Heinz Gaube, Wiesbaden 2008). Following the foundation of a new capital, al-Mansura, by the governor ‘Amr b. Muhammad al-Thaqafi, the Muslims began to issue a silver coinage with Arabic legends which struck to the same weight as the existing pre-Islamic coinage stock (between 0.5-0.7g with regional variation). Ilisch publishes a coin of similar design to the present specimen, but naming ‘Amr b. Muhammad rather than Hakam b. ‘Awana (plate 1, 1). The following extract from al-Baladhuri describes Hakam’s career (translation from A.V. Williams Jackson [ed], History of India: Volume 5 – The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians, London 1907): Hakim ibn ‘Awana al-Kalbi succeeded Tamim. The people of India had returned to idolatry, excepting those of Kassa, and the Muslims had no place of security in which they could take refuge, so he built a town on the other side of the lake facing India, and called it al-Mahfuza ‘the secure,’ and this he made a place of refuge and security for them, and their chief town. He asked the elders of the tribe of Kalb, who were of Syrian descent, what name he should give the town. Some said Dimashq (Damascus), others, Hims (Emesa), and others Tadmur (Palmyra), whereupon Hakim chose the latter name for his city, to which he gave the epithet of al-Mahfuzah, and dwelt there. ‘Amr ibn Muhammad ibn Qasim was with Hakim, and the latter advised with him, trusted him with many important matters, and sent him out of al-Mahfuza on a warlike expedition. He was victorious in his commission, and was made an amir. He founded a city on this side of the lake, which he called Mansura, in which the governors now dwell. Hakim recovered from the enemy those places which they had subjugated, and gave satisfaction to the people in his country, so that Khalid said: “It is very surprising – I gave the charge of the country to the most generous of Arabs, that is, to Tamim, and they were disgusted; I gave it to the most niggardly of men, and they were satisfied.” Hakim was killed there.
Abbasid, al-Ma’mun (194-218h), dirham, Madinat Arran 209h, rev., citing ‘Ubaydallah b. Yahya above and Ja‘far below, 3.25g (Vardanyan -), minor staining on obverse, better than very fine and apparently an unpublished variety. Ja‘far appears to be a previously unknown governor, not otherwise attested on the silver coinage struck at Madinat Arran or in the surrounding area at this period.
Abbasid, al-Wathiq (227-232h), silver ‘dinar’, Marw 237h, obv., without name of heir, rev., citing al-Wathiq billah, 2.86g, obverse double-struck, fine and unusual. This curious piece is presumably a contemporary imitation, given that denomination is given as al-dinar, the date is impossible for the caliph, and the module of the coin much smaller than official Marw dirhams of this period. Ex Samir Shamma Collection.
Abbasid, al-Mutawakkil (232-247h), silver ‘dinar’, Misr 242h, with mint/date legend reading al-dinar (as opposed to al-dirham), 3.11g, some surface pitting, apparently an ancient imitation which was presumably once plated to pass as a gold coin, almost very fine and unusual
Abbasid, al-Mutawakkil (232-247h), donative dinar with broad margins, Surra man ra’a 245h, 4.37g (including loop) (Bernardi 158Jc (this date not listed); cf Ilisch DI 9 = Qatar 1197 [244h]), pierced in border and still retaining ancient gold suspension loop, crease in centre running approximately the width of the legends, otherwise fine to good fine and of the highest rarity, apparently unpublished. Although donative silver dirhams of this type and date are known (Ilisch DI 10), this appears to be an unrecorded date for gold donatives from Samarra. These presentation coins were often worn as a visible mark of the caliph’s favour, and it is common to find them pierced or mounted as here. As well as marking the coinage as a special issue, the broad outer margin allowed the coin to be mounted without impairing the legends.
A late 19th century/early 20th century cut glass globular scent botle and stopper, silver-mounted collar, rubbed marks, c. 1900; a pair of Victorian silver-mounted dimple glass bottles, rubbed marks, c. 1900; another pair, panelled square, moulded in low relief with hobnail pattern, rubbed marks, c. 1900; white metal mounted dressing table jars (2); glass bottles and stoppers (3), [10]
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