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Click here to subscribeANCIENT COINS, Coinage of the Aksumite Kingdom, Ebana, Gold Unit, crowned and draped half-length bust of King right with ribbon behind, holding short stick, between two wheat stalks, within beaded circle, rev similar type to the obverse, but with the King wearing a headcloth, 1.63g, 12h (MH-JJ type 71; BMC 303). Obverse struck from a rusty die, otherwise very fine.
ANCIENT COINS, Coinage of the Aksumite Kingdom, Ebana, Gold Unit, crowned and draped half-length bust of King right with ribbon behind, holding short stick, between two wheat stalks, within beaded circle, rev similar type to the obverse, but with the King wearing a headcloth, 1.61g, 12h (MH-JJ type 71; BMC 303). Reverse double-struck, about very fine.
ANCIENT COINS, Coinage of the Aksumite Kingdom, Ebana, Gold Unit, crowned and draped half-length bust of King right with ribbon behind, holding short stick, between two wheat stalks, within beaded circle, rev similar type to the obverse, but with the King wearing a headcloth, 1.60g, 12h (MH-JJ type 71; BMC 305). Good very fine/very fine.
ANCIENT COINS, Coinage of the Aksumite Kingdom, Nezana (late-5th Century AD), Gold Unit, crowned and draped half-length bust of King right with ribbon behind, holding short stick, between two wheat stalks, large cross above, rev similar type to the obverse, but with the King wearing a headcloth, 1.61g, 12h (MH-JJ type 79c; BMC 401). Good fine and rare.
BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain, Charles II, Sir Samuel Morland, Silver Medal, 1681, by John Roettier, laureate bust of Charles II with flowing hair, rev legend IN ADVERSIS SVMMO VITAE PERICVLO IN PROPERIS FELICI INGENIO FREQVENS ADFVIT, lettered edge, SAMVEL MORLANDVS EQ QVR ET BAR, 33mm (MI I 582/257). Darkly toned, very fine with MI number 257 stuck to the reverse. Sir Samuel Morland (1625-1695), diplomatist, mathematician and inventor. The medals are said to have been struck by Morland after his appointment as ‘Master of Mechanics’, and were dedicated to the King. In old age he went blind and invented a machine for writing, and a mechanical calendar of sorts, as well as a pumping system to water his garden. bought Spink, April 1908, and believed ex Helen Farquhar Collection (whose habit it was to stick numbers on gummed paper onto her medals).
a collection of sporting jewellery, including: a pair of 9 carat rose gold fox mask and torpedo cufflinks, Chester 1922; four 9 carat gold fox mask pendants; various gold horseshoe studs; a fox and crop bar brooch; a similar fox mask brooch; a similar brooch with a bull mask; various fox mask and other stick pins; a paste horse and jockey brooch; various stirrup links and other items
a collection of hunting jewellery, comprising: an early 20th century gold and ruby fox mask and riding crop brooch, stamped 9ct; a hunting horn, horseshoe and running fox brooch, stamped 9ct; a fox mask bar brooch with small ruby eyes, stamped 9ct; another smaller stamped 14ct; a rolled-gold fox mask and crop bar brooch; a gilt-metal and diamond-chip fox mask and crop brooch; a 9 carat gold and fox mask ring, Birmingham 1975; a 9 carat gold signet ring engraved with a fox mask; a reverse painted paste intaglio ring and a similar stick pin (see illustration on our web site)
a collection of silver mounted and other canes and whips, including a malacca walking stick with a horn handle and an engraced silver band, London 1897; another with a horn handle, marks rubbed; a whip, Birmingham 1913; a riding crop, Birmingham 1907; and other items (see illustration on website)
a Second World War Japanese Officer’s dirk, 22cm single edged blade, gilt metal cross guard, fishkin wire-bound grip, in its leather sheath with gilt metal mount (lacking terminal mount); a Third Reich SA dagger, lacking scabbard (condition problems); a swagger stick, and three various daggers, (6).
A lidded mustard pot, by George McHattie, Edinburgh 1812, of circular outline, with floral border and domed hinged cover, with shell thumb-piece; a pepper caster, by Bradbury and Henderson, London 1882; a pair of oval open salts, with embossed floral decoration, marks worn; together with an Old Sheffield plated chamber stick (5) 12oz
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