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Click here to subscribe14th century AD. A silver-gilt ring brooch formed as two serpentine creatures with a head at each end gripping the constriction for the loop of the pin and the pad; D-section pin. Found Tuddenham, Suffolk, UK, 2015. Disclaimed under the Treasure Act, reference number T2015 T36; accompanied by a letter from the British Museum. Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme with reference number SF-3ADAC2. 0.93 grams, 13mm (1/2"). Fine condition.
12th-14th century AD. A silver-gilt discoid mount with raised ropework border, lion resting with legs splayed on a textured field, tail curled, raised head modelled in the round; remains of stud to the reverse. Property of a German collector; acquired in the 1990s. 4.96 grams, 22mm (1"). [No Reserve] Very fine condition.
14th-17th century AD. A mixed group of silver and bronze finger rings comprising: a plain hoop with expanding shoulders; a D-section hoop with octagonal bezel, reserved lozenge motif; a D-section hoop with discoid bezel, pellet border and inset green glass cone; a flat-section hoop with discoid bezel, reserved wheel motif on green enamel field. From a Surrey, UK, collection; formed before 2000. 27 grams total, 17-30mm (3/4 - 1 1/4"). [4] Mainly fine condition.
12th-16th century AD. A mixed group of silver and bronze finger rings comprising: one with D-section hoop, discoid bezel, reserved lozenge motif; on similar with central knop to bezel; one with discoid bezel, scooped edge; one with discoid bezel, intaglio geometric motifs. From a Surrey collection; formed between 1990-2000. 37 grams total, 24-28mm (1"). [4] Mainly fine condition.
1st century BC-18th century AD. A mixed group comprising: a bronze pendant with two lateral arms, each with trefoil finial, red enamel fill; a silver ring brooch formed as a twisted wire hoop and pin; a bronze mount with 'IHS' reserved blackletter motif; a vesica seal matrix; a bronze posy finger ring with copperplate text to the inner face '*[...] is my Love'. Property of a Suffolk gentleman. 29 grams total, 17-41mm (3/4 - 1 3/4"). [5, No Reserve] Fair condition.
15th century AD. With a published Joan of Arc association dating back over a century, exhibited twice in France in the 1950s and in the Museum of Lancashire Millennium Exhibition, January to December 2000, this ring has a silver-gilt hoop with facetted outer face, expanding shoulders and two rectangular and angled fields to the bezel; the hoop with incised niello-filled florid lozenges and triangles, the design giving the appearance of three crosses, the ends of the shoulders with blackletter 'I' and 'M' (for 'Iesus Maria'), the lateral faces with blackletter 'IHS' and 'MAR' (as abbreviations for Jesus and Maria); a small section inserted later to the hoop, sufficient possibly to enlarge it from a band suitable for a small, feminine finger to a larger male(?) hand; the degree of wear generally evident to the ring, including to the hoop insert, suggesting an extended period of wear, long after the date of making, perhaps indicative of the ring's appeal as a talisman; contained in an antique, small oak casket in the form of an architectural reliquary with pitched and hipped lid, the ridge surmounted by a plain cross in iron, the box red velvet-lined, with a removable rectangular holder (the compartment beneath possibly having once held a small document or label), arranged to display the bezel and purpose-made to hold the ring, indicating the reverence in which the ring was already held when the box was made for it; the ring is very unusual in that the vast majority of rings with angled rectangular bezels have them engraved with pictures of saints rather than being inscribed (generally termed as iconographic rings); inscriptions on such rings are normally on the hoop part. Accompanied by a professional drawing showing the ring extended, with the three crosses forming part of the design to the shank clearly depicted; also with publications, documents, press cuttings and correspondence including a photocopy of the 1917 Oates privately printed catalogue; a cuttings book containing an extract from the Sotheby's sale of 1947 (including an image of the ring), with press cuttings from such publications as the Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph and Le Figaro at the time of that sale, followed by others (some illustrated, showing both ring and casket) including from English, American and French newspapers and periodicals in the 1950s, from when the ring was exhibited in France (at La Turbie and also at Rouen and Paris); associated correspondence with the mayor of La Turbie and further referring to the 500th rehabilitation anniversary exhibition; typescript research notes and a signed note by Cyril Bunt (dated 1949) discussing Cardinal Beaufort and the ring and its descent to Lady Morrell; papers relating to two interviews with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1953 and 1956; correspondence with the French embassy in London, shipping documents and permissions for the ring to be sent to France for exhibition; a photocopy of the last letter (with transcript) of Joan of Arc; the exhibition pamphlet for La Turbie (4 copies, 3 in English, 1 in French, 1952), the catalogue for the Jeanne d'Arc et Son Temps exhibition (Rouen and Paris, 1956); documents, including the mounted display caption, from the AD 2000 - The Story of Christianity in Lancashire exhibition at the Museum of Lancashire held in 2000; other correspondence of various dates from 1950s to 1980s regarding the ring, most of the letters with envelopes. Property of an Essex gentleman; inherited 1979 from Dr James Hasson of Harley Street, London; acquired Sotheby's sale, 1 April 1947, lot 37; formerly in a private collection (1929-1947); previously with the F. A. Harman Oates collection (sold Sotheby's, 20 February 1929, lot 21); earlier with Augustus John before 1914, the gift to him of Lady Ottoline Morrell; by descent, through the Cavendish-Bentinck family (Duke of Portland) from cardinal Henry Beaufort (1375-1447), who was present at the trial and execution of Joan of Arc in 1431; the ring stated by Joan at her trial to have been a gift from her parents. Supplied with a positive X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate. Asked if on the crowned heads there were not rings of gold or other substance, she answered: I do not know. Asked if she herself did not have some rings, she replied to us, bishop: You have one of mine; give it back to me. She said the Burgundians have another ring; and she asked us, if we had her ring, to show it to her. Asked who gave her the ring which the Burgundians had, she answered her father or her mother; and she thought the names Jhesus Maria were written thereon; she did not know who had them written; she did not think there was any stone in it; and she was given the ring at Domrémy. She said that her brother gave her the other ring which we had and she charged us to give it to the Church. She said she never cured any one with any of her rings and [130] ......Asked of what substance one of her rings was, on which the words Jhesus Maria were written, she answered that she did not properly know; and if it was of gold, it was not of fine gold; and she did not know whether it was of gold or brass; she thought there were three crosses, and to her knowledge no other signs save the words Jhesus Maria. Asked why she gladly looked at this ring when she was going to battle, she answered that it was out of pleasure, and in honour of her father and mother; and having her ring in her hand and on her finger she touched St. Catherine who appeared before her....; see Quicherat, Jules, Procés de Condamnation et de Réhabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc, Paris, 1841-1849 (first publication of the full trial texts); see Barrett, P. W., Trial of Joan of Arc, New York, 1932 (first English translation of the trial texts"). Oates, F. A. H., Catalogue of Finger Rings; Brought Together by F. A. Harman Oates, privately printed, London; Sotheby's, sales catalogues, 20 February 1929 (lot 21) and 1 April 1947 (lot 37); Hasson, Dr James, The Banquet of the Immortals, Poseidon Press, Edinburgh, 1948 (310 copies printed), pp.94-100 for a romanticised account of this ring and the death of Joan of Arc (extract from this work included); The Marvellous and Symbolic Story of the Ring of Jeanne d'Arc Exhibited at the Chapelle St-Jean of La Turbie, n.d (1952; English and French language versions accompanying this lot); Jeanne d'Arc et Son Temps, Paris, 1956, Commémoration du Vme Centaire de la Réhabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc, 1456-1956, Rouen and Paris, p.61, no.190 (original catalogue accompanying this lot"). Accompanied by an Art Loss Register certificate. Cyril George Edward Bunt (1882-1969) was an art historian and Librarian at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the writer of several books on such topics as the works of Sir Frank Brangwyn, David Cox and Leonard Campbell Taylor, together with a history of Windsor Castle; he researched the pedigree of the ring and its descent through the Beaufort and Cavendish families (typescript history, discussion and genealogical tree included); he corresponded with Augustus John regarding the ring and confirms how John received it. It is worth noting that the Condemnation trial documents were not published (in France) before 1849 and that the first English translation was published in 1932; prior to these publications, the only access to the original documents would have been in the archives in Paris and, as the association between this ring and Joan of Arc is published at least as early as 1917 (the Oates Catalogue), the connection appears to have been made before any details of Joan's description of her rings would have been generally known. The Cyril Bunt typescript documents have only very recently been found. Ring: 4.90 grams, 21mm overall, 18.27mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 17); casket: 127 grams total, 79 x 58 x 77mm (Ring: 3/4 casket: 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 x 3"). Good condition; surfaces worn.
15th century AD. A D-section silver-gilt hoop with pie-dish bezel, reserved arcade to the outer face, hatched 'IHS' monogram (for 'Jesus') over a heart, cross above. Property of a German collector; acquired in the 1990s. 7.32 grams, 28mm overall, 21.36mm internal diameter (approximate size British X 1/2, USA 11 3/4, Europe 27.01, Japan 26) (1"). [No Reserve] Fine condition, usage wear. A large wearable size.
14th-15th century AD. A silver repoussé plaque with facing seraph mask, four wings to the lower edge and two above; mask framed by a beaded border; pierced above and at one edge. From the collections of Maurice Braham and Lord McAlpine of West Green, London, UK. A seraph is a heavenly creature from Jewish and Christian tradition. They are believed to serve God and are depicted with six wings: two for flying, two to cover their feet and two to cover their faces so that they cannot look upon the face of God. The name seraph (pl. seraphim) means fiery one. They are possibly derived from similar winged creatures from earlier ancient Persian beliefs. 3.84 grams, 74mm (3"). [No Reserve] Fair condition.
Late 18th-19th century AD. A flat-section rose gold hoop with bifid shoulders, silver skull-shaped plaque modelled in the half-round with white enamelled brow, reserved equal-arm cross; supplied in velvet-lined case. Property of a Suffolk lady. See discussion in Oman, C.C. British Rings 800-1914 London, 1974 and plates 87-91. 3.64 grams, 22mm overall, 17.01mm internal diameter (approximate size British M 1/2, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.41, Japan 13) (1"). Fine condition.
18th century AD. A silver-gilt hoop with beaded borders and median band inscribed in seriffed capitals '* A * FRENDS * GYFTE', to the inner face 'ACCEPT * IN * LOYALTIE'. Property of a Suffolk gentleman. 9.10 grams, 22mm overall, 18.90mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18) (1"). Very fine condition. A large wearable size.
17th century AD. A silver heart-shaped pendant with large ribbed loop with pellet decoration; in centre of pendant is bust of Minerva with gilded surround enclosed in circular rope border; either side is decoration of two triangles formed of three pellets; below bust is single pellet; large single tear drop bead at bottom; Eastern European workmanship. Property of a gentleman; acquired in the late 1960s-early 1970s. 6 grams, 36mm (1 1/2"). Very fine condition.
3rd-7th century AD. A base silver bowl, discoid in plan with rounded underside and thickened rim, incised image of an advancing lion to the centre. Acquired on the London art market prior to 1980. Cf. Muscarella, O.W. Bronze and Iron. Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, item 429 for type. 366 grams, 19cm (7 1/2"). [No Reserve] Fine condition.
1st millennium AD. A mixed group comprising: a stone figure of a standing robed female with hood; a bronze zoomorphic mount with pierced lugs to the feet; a bronze goat figurine; a pair of silver bracelets with granule detailing. Property of a Scandinavian collector; acquired on the European art market. 61 grams total, 28-61mm (1 - 2 1/2"). [5, No Reserve] Mainly fine condition.
18th century AD. A silver lidded vessel comprising a hemispherical bowl and domed lid with onion-shaped handle; the bowl with repoussé rosette motif to the underside, band of inverted arcading to the border with palmettes and swags beneath; the lid with flange rim, repoussé fluting between bands of running scrolls, similar detailing to the handle. Private collection, London, UK; formerly with Persepolis Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK; in the 1980s. 500 grams, 18cm (7"). Fine condition.
19th century AD. A silver pocket watch with guilloche pattern and central shield device on the front cover, guilloche pattern on the back cover; inside the front cover is hallmarked and with registration number; glass cover has silver frame with scroll pattern; enamel dial has a gold border with Arabic numerals to the face; to the bottom is a seconds dial also with Arabic numerals; one of the hands missing, to the top of the centre of the face is a floral swag with Arabic inscription in gold; latch to the side. Property of an American collector; acquired Europe 1970s-1990s. 95 grams, 70mm (2 3/4"). Fine condition.
18th-19th century AD. A hollow-formed penannular silver armring with bands of granulation to the ends, filigree hoops, remains of closure to one finial. From an important private London collection; formed in the 1970s and 1980s. 94 grams, 12.5cm (5"). Fair condition.
16th century AD. A square-section silver hoop with scooped leaf-shaped shoulders, hexagonal plaque with scooped edges; inlaid niello stripes to the shoulders, scrolled foliage to the plaque with reserved scaphoid panel, pelletted border; old collector's label to the inner face '86.363.2'. From an important collection formed by a Mayfair gentleman; acquired 1986. 13 grams, 27mm overall, 21.08mm internal diameter (approximate size British W 1/2, USA 11 1/2, Europe 26.22, Japan 25) (1"). Very fine condition.
19th century AD. A heavy silver ring with circular loop decorated with a pair of peacocks enclosing a raised carnelian intaglio; incised foliage decoration to the surface. From an important London collection, acquired in the 1970s. 21.21 grams, 31mm overall, 19mm internal diameter (approximate ring size UK S, USA 9, Europe 19.69, Japan 19) (1 1/4"). [No Reserve] Fine condition.
3rd century BC. A short and broad triangular blade with blood letting fullers either side, each forming the two long sides of a triangle; fitted with a bronze lower quillon guard and a pommel with two openwork crescents, the iron grip inlaid with flat bronze strip forming a complex geometric pattern with bosses; Iberian workmanship. From an important English collection; acquired in the 1990s. The dagger used by the Roman soldier, or legionary, was called a pugio; a last-ditch stabbing weapon brandished in hand-to-hand combat, also used to eliminate guards or sentries in a night attack. Only high-rank officers and dignitaries owned pugio daggers with ornamented hilts with silver or copper inlays. 420 grams, 30.5cm (12"). Very fine condition. Rare.
15th-16th century AD. A tubular iron macehead with domed top and knop, circumferential ribs, six rectangular radiating flanges; the remains of silver inlaid scrolled tendrils between the flanges. Property of a Surrey collector; acquired in the early 1970s. 620 grams, 18cm (7"). Fine condition.
15th-16th century AD. An iron prick spur with curving body, lozenge shaped attachments to the top with piercings; at the bottom a spike with spherical body attached to the body of the spur; the whole decorated with inset beads of silver. Property of a London businessman, from his grandfather's collection formed after World War II; thence by descent 1972. 119 grams, 14cm (5 1/2"). Very fine condition. Scarce.
18th-19th century AD. A steel talwar sword with single-edged blade curved for its lower quarter and double-edged; the grip lentoid-section with median swelling, round-section expanding crossguard with button finials and rectangular tongue to each face, to one end of the crossguard a flat-section guard swept up towards the discoid pommel with knop finial; Bidri or Deccan style silver inlay to the hilt. Property of a North East Essex collector; acquired in the 1980s. 1 kg, 93cm (36 1/2"). [No Reserve] Fine condition.
4th century BC. Group comprising: five silver drachms, hemidrachms and a triobol from Parium (Mysia), Chersonenos (Thrace) and Istros (Thrace), including the types gorgoneion / PA with bull; forepart of lion / incuse square with A over dot; similar with dot over M; similar (possibly a contemporary fourré imitation) with A; two male heads facing, one inverted / sea-eagle on dolphin. See SNG Cop. 266/see CNG 862661 (not in usual catalogs but on Wildwinds.com)/Berlin I, 61/AMNG 446; BMC 13; BM Black Sea 258 10.59 grams total. [5] Good fine to very fine; first two with small test cuts.
120-100 BC. Obv: Aquitanic head right with leaf-like hair. Rev: horseman right with oval shield, scrolled flower below. The Brodie Hall, Kent, UK, collection; acquired Chris Rudd (with envelope and ticket); ex D. Beadell collection. LT 4446; DT 3344; BMC S 174. Chris Rudd, Liz's List 46, number 4 (this coin"). 'Chris Rudd notes: Only 38 others recorded, mostly in French museums. These large West Berry silver coins are attributed to the Pictones by D. Nash (1978).' 3.04 grams. Very fine; large flan. Very rare.
10-40 AD. Obv: COF in box with pellet at sides, pellet-in-annulet above and below. Rev: facing head of Medusa with VERI around. The Brodie Hall, Kent, UK, collection; acquired Chris Rudd (with envelope and ticket"). S. 141; BMC 1506; ABC 1271. Chris Rudd, List 117, number 26 (this coin"). Chris Rudd notes: 'It's five years since we sold our one and only other specimen, which came to us from the Tony Abramson collection. Commenting on it Dr Philip de Jersey said: This is one of the rarest of Verica's silver minims, with only seven examples recorded in the CCI, of which four are in museum collections. The Medusa head links the type back to the quarter stater of Tincomarus bearing the same motif (VA 378) but is rather less well defined here; the limitations of the minim dies must have made this an extraordinarily difficult piece of die engraving'. 0.25 grams. Good very fine/very fine. Extremely rare (only nine others recorded, including four in museums).
50-5 BC. Obv: boar right with two front legs, ears and tusk with 'spear' in shoulder and annulet-in-pelleted-annulet above, 'triskele' symbol before and pellet-in-annulet below. Rev: horse left with pelleted annulet above and pellet-in-annulet and dotted ground line below. Found Exton, Rutland, UK, early 1990s. S. -; BMC -; ABC - (but see ABC 1779 for the type, with different symbol below the boar, in silver; also see S. 396 and BMC 3194-3198"). The nearest parallel for this coin is the Proto Boar type silver unit of the Corieltauvi (S. 396; BMC 3194-3198; ABC 1779) but no bronze coins are recorded for this region. As it was found in association with other Corelitauvi coins, the attribution to this tribe seems reasonable and it appears that it is perhaps a contemporary forgery of a silver unit that would once have had a plated surface. 1.17 grams. [No Reserve] Very fine. Very rare.
101 BC. Obv: helmeted head of Roma right with ARG PVB (AR ligated) behind. Rev: Jupiter in quadriga right, holding sceptre and thunderbolt with L. SENTI C F in exergue. Cr. 325/1; Syd. 600; RSC Sentia 1; Sear 203. ARG PVB indicates that the coins were struck from 'the public silver' and appears on some issues of this period. 3.89 grams. [No Reserve] Good very fine.
A gentleman's very fine gilt metal mounted coromandel/calamander fitted Dressing Case by Asprey, London (gilt metal labels), the lid opening to reveal a pull down blue velvet covered writing surface and in turn revealing hand held Mirror, Glove Stretchers and ivory Letter Opener/Page Turner, the main interior with a variety of accoutrements including cased ivory Shaving Strop, oval ivory handled Clothes Brush and Hair Brush and upon a stand opening to reveal two ivory handled Cut Throat Razors, the front section with silver mounted glass requisite boxes etc., and a silver mounted Scent/Drinks Decanter, each side having finely cut hobnail pattern, further with ivory Comb and the Tray lifting to reveal lower smaller Tray with a variety of gentleman's requisites including Scissors, Button Hook, miniature Corkscrew, Tweezers etc., the silver mounts with assay marks for London 1870, (a lot of the ivory pieces with conforming armorial crest and monogram, the silver mounts also engraved and matching the hinged lid with the same monogram/armorial crest), 31.5cm wide CONDITION REPORT: Generally very good overall, nothing major
A late Georgian fiddle pattern silver Serving Spoon, engraved monogram to handle and assayed London, makers mark T.B, together with a pair of George III silver Sugar Tongs, bright cut engraving and initials ML to cartouche, makers mark for Peter and Jonathan Bateman, circa 1800, length of Spoon 22cm (2)
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