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Lot 85
Various silver and effects, a leather coin purse with extending white metal neck, 10cm high, Accurist gentleman's wristwatch, various silver bangles, sovereign case, pheasant brooch, heavy link necklace set with amethyst coloured stone, silver salt, coin brooch, brass coin scales, etc. (a quantity, various dates and makers)
Lot 158
Interesting Photograph Album and Accompanying Diary Recording a Trip Made to India via the Pacific 1925-26, Taking in New York, Canada, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Manila, Malaysia and Ceylon. The photograph album begins with views on deck the SS Minnedosa when coming into port at Quebec, moving onto images taken in Montreal and then the sights of New York City at this time. They then appear to travel back through Canada by train, going through the Canadian Rockies. It would appear that they boarded the Empress of Canada and continued their trip onto Japan, arriving in Yokohama. The album has many good clear images of street scenes, local population and architecture in cities such as Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, etc. Album then moves onto Shanghai and China with again many good images taken on the Shanghai river, street scenes in Shanghai including the barbed wire barrier marking the boundary of Foreign Concession in the city. Good images of the Mandarins Summer House in Shanghai including image of the door keeper smoking a large opium pipe. Moving onto Hong Kong, many images taken in the harbour of ships, views of the harbour from above, various street scene images, views from the old city of Kowloon, including image taken inside the gateway to the city and Chinese cemetery. The latter pages in the photograph album show images taken in Manila, Singapore and Penang (Malaysia) before ending with some images taken in Ceylon. The diaries accompanying the photograph are extremely well written and very easy to read, they give clear details of the trip they have undertaken and a note of the nautical miles they have travelled has been documented. During the time in China they comment on the difference they have encountered between Japan and China, “In comparison with Japan where cleanliness is the more general rule, the dirt & smells & untidiness of the native streets appalled us. A large of the population seemed to be living on the river in junks & house boats.” The diary also talks about visiting the Mandarin house which is documented in the photographs in the album, “We were shown another Mandarin’s home which had some specially fine stone dragons on the walls & a curious old bearded custodian with a long Chinese pipe”. They detail the travels to Kowloon city and describe the differences they found between this city and that of Shanghai. With the detailed diaries and the good array of images in the album the trip made by this couple really comes to life. Fascinating insight into a trip made by very few people at this time. (150 snap shot images and 60 purchased pictures)
Lot 93
A Hicks, Meigh and Johnson Ironstone part dinner service, circa 1822-35 transfer-printed in underglaze blue with birds amongst foliage, comprising a large tureen, cover, and stand, seven dinner plates, seven soup plates and a large meat platter, transfer-printed in underglaze blue 'Stone China No.2', the tureen 21.5cm high (18)
Lot 489
Uranius Antoninus Æ32 of Emesa, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated SE 565 = AD 253/4. AVTOK C OV?? ANT?N?INOC C?, laureate bust right, wearing paludamentum and cuirass / ?MIC?N KO??N, hexastyle temple of Elagabal at Emesa containing the conical stone of Elagabal shaded by two parasols; crescent in pediment, ??? (date) in exergue. BMC 24; Baldus 38-42; R. Delbrueck, 'Uranius of Emesa,' NC 1948, Series I, 2; SNG Hunterian 3174. 24.03g, 32mm, 1h. Near Extremely Fine. Very Rare. Sold with export licence issued by The Israel Antiquities Authority. The literary sources are unclear about Uranius Antoninus: Zosimus describes a usurper by the name of Antoninus during the reign of Gallienus, while contemporary Christian writer John Malalas speaks of an Emesan priest by the name of Samsigeramus who repulsed the Sassanid king Shapur I. Whether the accounts describe the same person, and whether this person was the Uranius who struck coins at Emesa, is a matter for debate. The era date given on the reverse of this coin, ??? = 565 = 253/4, suggests that Uranius established an independent Empire at Emesa around the time Valerian and Gallienus were crowned co-augusti in 253. The dating supports Malalas' account and Uranius may have indeed come to prominence during the attempts to defend the city of Emesa from the invasion of Shapur, prompting the establishment of his small independent state. If Uranius was the priest described by Malalas, the name Samsigeramus suggests that he may have been a member of the Emesan royal house of the same name and likely, the high priest of Elagabal. If this was the case, we might assume that Uranius was a descendant of the Severan-Emesan house who had previously seen a priest proclaimed emperor in Elagabalus. Though the name Samsigeramus is not attested on the coinage of Uranius, the reverse depiction of the temple of Elagabal certainly suggests the cult was important to his legitimacy. There is little doubt that Uranius' rebellion came to an end shortly after Valerian marched east and recovered Syria in AD 254.
Lot 490
Uranius Antoninus Æ30 of Emesa, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated SE 565 = AD 253/4. AVTOK C OV?? ANT?N?INOC C?, laureate bust right, wearing paludamentum and cuirass / ?MIC?N KO??N, hexastyle temple of Elagabal at Emesa containing the conical stone of Elagabal shaded by two parasols; crescent in pediment, ??? (date) in exergue. BMC 24; Baldus 38-42; R. Delbrueck, 'Uranius of Emesa,' NC 1948, Series I, 2; SNG Hunterian 3174. 24.38g, 30mm, 1h. Near Extremely Fine. Very Rare. From the inventory of a North American dealer.
Lot 93
Lucania, Herakleia AR Stater. Circa 330-280 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone; [|-HRAKLHIWN] above, small K behind / Herakles standing facing, holding club, bow, and arrow, lion's skin draped over arm; AQA to left of club, |-HRAKLHIWN to right; aryballos above. HN Italy 1384; van Keuren 84f; Work 66 (this coin). 7.92g, 20mm, 2h. Near Extremely Fine; pleasant old cabinet tone. This coin published in E. Work, The Earlier Staters of Heraclea Lucaniae (ANSNNM 91, 1940); Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker 262, 13 March 2015, lot 7032; Ex Ars Classica XII, 18 October 1926, lot 369.
Lot 603
A 9ct. yellow gold wedding band, 2.1grms; two blue stone and diamond rings on yellow metal shanks stamped '9ct.'; a half hoop eternity ring set with diamonds, on white metal shank stamped '18ct.', 9.3grms gross; and two three stone diamond rings on yellow metal shanks (indistinctly hallmarked), 3.9grms gross.
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