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Lot 211
ROLEX. MONTRE BRACELET EN ACIER AVEC DATE ET 2ND FUSEAU HORAIRE MOUVEMENT AUTOMATIQUEROLEX. A STAINLESS STEEL AUTOMATIC CALENDAR BRACELET WATCH WITH DUAL TIME ZONE Model: GMT Master 'Pepsi'Reference: 1675Date: 1966Movement: 26-jewel Cal.1570 free sprung balance, automatic, adjusted to 5 positions & temperature, No.D28***Dial: Black, luminous dot hour markers with baton quarters, white outer minute divisions, magnified date aperture at 3, polished Mercedes hands with luminous inserts, centre seconds, arrow tipped red GMT handCase: Brushed and polished tonneau form, screw down back, shouldered crown, bi-directional bezel with blue and red 'Pepsi' bezel insert, No.140****Strap/Bracelet: Fitted brushed 78360 Oyster link, 401B end linksBuckle/Clasp: Signed folding claspSigned: Case, dial & movement Size: 39mmFootnotes:The Rolex GMT was launched in 1954 after the Transatlantic Airways company asked Rolex to produce a watch useful for their pilots. It quickly gained favour among the Pan-Am executives and the business jet-set community as a whole.Offered continuously since its introduction with relatively little modification it is perhaps, along with the Submariner, the most classic Rolex 'tool' watch made. The reference 1675 began production 80 years ago in 1960. This was the first GMT Master reference to feature protective crown guards as well as the smaller triangular tip on the second hour hand. Examples of the immense popularity and timeless style of the model are evident with steel GMT Master watches being worn on the wrist of actors and actresses such as Honor Blackman as 'Pussy Galore' in the 1964 movie Goldfinger, Tom Selleck as the Ferrari driving 'Thomas Magnum' in the 1980s television series Magnum PI (series 2-4) and more recently on the wrist of Ben Affleck in the 2014 movie Gone Girl.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 242
ROLEX. MONTRE BRACELET EN ACIER AVEC DATE ET 2ND FUSEAU HORAIRE MOUVEMENT AUTOMATIQUE ROLEX. A STAINLESS STEEL AUTOMATIC CALENDAR BRACELET WATCH WITH DUAL TIME ZONE Model: GMT Master 'Pepsi'Reference: 1675Date: Circa 1970Movement: 26-jewel Cal.1570 automatic, adjusted to 5 positions & temperatureDial: Black, luminous painted dot hour markers, baton quarters, white outer minute divisions, magnified date aperture at 3, polished Mercedes hands with luminous inserts, centre seconds, further arrow tipped dual time zone handCase: Brushed and polished tonneau form, screw down back and shouldered crown, blue and red 'pepsi' bezel insert, No. 28*****Strap/Bracelet: Fitted brushed 7836 folded linkBuckle/Clasp: Signed folding clasp stamped 3/71Signed: Case, dial & movementSize: 39mm Accompaniments: Brushed 78360 Oyster link bracelet with signed folding claspFootnotes:The Rolex GMT was launched in 1954 after the Transatlantic Airways company asked Rolex to produce a watch useful for their pilots. It quickly gained favour among the Pan-Am executives and the business jet-set community as a whole.Offered continuously since its introduction with relatively little modification it is perhaps, along with the Submariner, the most classic Rolex 'tool' watch made. The reference 1675 began production 80 years ago in 1960. This was the first GMT Master reference to feature protective crown guards as well as the smaller triangular tip on the second hour hand.Examples of the immense popularity and timeless style of the model are evident with steel GMT Master watches being worn on the wrist of actors and actresses such as Honor Blackman as 'Pussy Galore' in the 1964 movie Goldfinger, Tom Selleck as the Ferrari driving 'Thomas Magnum' in the 1980s television series Magnum PI (series 2-4) and more recently on the wrist of Ben Affleck in the 2014 movie Gone Girl.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 1157
EARLY 19TH CENTURY SCOTTISH LONGCASE CLOCK, by John Law of Beith, the pillared hood with broken swan neck pediment and urn finial, the brass dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, and subsidiary seconds hand and calendar aperture, two train eight day movement, the lunette with mounted roundel inscribed with maker's name, the waisted mahogany case with moulded dentil cornice, quarter rounded columns, the door with serpentine top and Masonic tool inlay, approximately 200cm high
Lot 14
The Ryedale Ritual Bronzes. A unique assemblage of Roman ritual artefacts from Yorkshire.In May 2020, approximately 20 miles north of York, the Roman city of Eboracum, two friends Mark Didlick and James Spark unearthed an amazing assemblage of Roman bronze-work. Consisting of a large bust, a horse and rider figurine, a zoomorphic knife handle and a pendulum, this assemblage almost certainly represents a set of ritual equipment, buried as one deposit in the closing decades of the second century AD either at, or very close to, a rural temple or shrine site.BustThe 130mm high bronze bust, with its flamboyant hair and curly, forked beard appears to represent Marcus Aurelius. Emperor AD 161-180, philosopher and author, his reign followed those of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and his adoptive father, Antoninus Pius. He earned his place in Roman hearts as the last of the ‘Five Good Emperors’ whose consecutive rules oversaw a period of relative peace and prosperity in Rome. The bust is hollow, cast using the lost wax method and very finely modelled. Although the portrait is somewhat stylised, with large almond-shaped eyes, close similarities can be seen with some other depictions of the Emperor, notably the bronze equestrian statue of Aurelius in the Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, and the full-length figure in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. The back of the head has a hinged plate which opens like a trap door to reveal the interior, possibly designed as such to allow the placement of a flaming lamp inside to bring life to the eyes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_Statue_of_Marcus_Aureliushttps://www.worldhistory.org/image/2406/marcus-aurelius-statue-ny-carlsberg-glyptotek/A similar head was found at Brackley, Northamptonshire in the 1970’s and now features on the homepage of the Portable Antiquities Scheme website. The head is hollow-cast and has cobalt blue glass inlaid into the eyes. The PAS record BERK-E24C84 states: ‘The small number of heads or busts cast in bronze and found in Britain share characteristics such as slanting eyes and the textured patterning of the hair identifies them as the products of a provincial Romano-British workshop. The Brackley head can be dated to the mid-late second century AD by its resemblance to images of Antonine emperors, especially Marcus Aurelius. It may perhaps be inappropriate to suggest that the head from Brackley represents the local rendering of an imperial portrait, but a profile image on a coin portrait of Marcus Aurelius might have been its inspirations.’ https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/252426Around 20 bronze heads/busts are known from Roman Britain, depicting various gods and emperors and they are thought to be mounts from the tops of sceptres. These sceptres would have been carried by priests and used for divination and the performance of rituals.Mars statuette.A cast bronze figurine of a rider on horseback, probably representing the God Mars. The horse and rider are well modelled, the horse harness with attached phalerae and reins clearly visible, though the latter are broken. Mars, wearing a helmet, short-sleeved tunic and pleated skirt, belted at the waist, sits astride the horse with his right arm raised to hold a spear. The left arm is held in front, bent at the elbow and the simple form of the forearm indicates it would have been held behind a shield, hidden from view. No traces of a shield were found in the hoard and it is possible that this was made from organic material. The horse has its right foreleg raised and the other legs have small pegs on the base of the hooves, indicating that the figurine would have been fixed into a plinth. It is often the case with votive deposits that figurines are interred without their bases or sometimes a pedestal is included with no accompanying figurine. 86.8mm high. 222g.Knife handle. A solid bronze knife handle in the form of a horse protome (the foreparts of a horse). The horse is well modelled with its front legs outstretched and head forward, as though leaping. PAS suggest that ‘The presence of the horse protome... might also be explained through its secondary use as a substitute votive for animal sacrifice.’ The symbolism may not end there, this may have been a knife using in rituals of animal sacrifice or divination through the examination of animal entrails.Pendulum/plumb bob. A large bronze conical plumb bob or pendulum measuring 72mm long, 40mm diameter and weighing 282g. The top is decorated with concentric circles and at the centre is a mushroom-shaped projection, which is pierced both vertically and horizontally for attachment to a line. Such items were an important tool for surveyors and architects and it has been suggested that this could be a votive offering relating to a new building project or the surveying of the landscape, More likely, however, is that the pendulum was used for the purposes of divination and predicting the future.The find was taken to York museum where it was recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference number: YORYM-870B0E. Under current legislation this find did not fulfil the criteria to qualify as ‘Treasure’ so the hoard was returned to the finders. https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1013510Other examples of similar ritual deposits from Roman Britain include.The Felmingham Hall Hoard: This hoard from Norfolk was discovered in 1844 and consisted of a large ceramic cauldron containing 19 bronze items. The contents included a sceptre heads depicting Jupiter and Minerva along with other figures of gods and animals, along with a ritual rattle used for divination purpose. This hoard has been interpreted as a symbolic ‘end of life’ votive deposit possibly signifying the closure of the shrine to which they belonged. A coin of Valerian inside the cauldron dates the hoard to the mid third century AD.https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1925-0610-1Willingham Fen Hoard: At Willingham Fen in 1857, another hoard of priestly regalia was found. This included horse and rider figurines, five broken sceptres, including handles and terminals, and a large bronze sceptre head depicting the emperor Antoninus Pius. These items were contained within a wooden box. It was suggested that the head of Antoninus was crafted after the Emperor was deified, justifying his presence atop a sceptre in a position usually reserved for the gods. https://www.jstor.org/stable/297703?seq=1The Ryedale bronzes offer a tantalising insight into the religious practices of Roman Britain in the 2nd century. The items themselves were obviously held in high esteem and from other examples of ritual hoards we can see that such deposits were not infrequent occurrences. We can theorise that these objects were the property of one priest, his tools of communication with the Gods, and were no longer needed in the mortal realm once the priest passed on. In his book Meditations Marcus Aurelius wrote ‘What we do now echoes in eternity.’ Famously paraphrased by General Maximus in the opening scenes of Gladiator, this still holds true today as the events around a rural shrine in Ryedale echo forward into the 21st century.(Text reproduced with from The Searcher magazine June 2021 issue pp.20-23).For further information see Esposito (2019) Performing the Sacra: Priestly Roles and Their Organisation in Roman Britain.
Lot 200
A quantity of vintage tools to include a Handy angle, a vintage pine carpenters box containing various milling cutters, two metal tool boxes with spanners and sockets, an old Sketton scythe with spare blade, a Blacksmiths leg vice and a record V175 bench vice and a box containing old tools and an early brass blowtorch Location: G
Lot 350
A hallmarked silver mounted wooden box and contents comprising hallmarked silver including three cheroot holders, a cigar pricker, a combination hook and scissors multi-tool, together with a white metal novelty combination penknife modelled as a light house. Condition - knife in light house broken, general wear through.
Lot 85
Special Air Services interest - miscellaneous items including an American lock picking set, green leather gloves, a pair of vintage Stadium desert goggles, pewter flasks, Warris Sheffield military issue pocket knife, vintage brass carabiner made by Clog. Wales 3000 weight distribution, Silva Swedish map readers (one with compass), Demolition Charge Computing Tape, US Army compass, original British Amy Case Pointer Staft MK1 in the original canvas case, J. Hudson & Co military issue whistle and a US Leatherman multi-tool device housed in a leather case.
Lot 15
A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TIBETAN-STYLE PRAYER WHEELQianlongComposed of a cylindrical wheel on a spindle decorated with lanca characters interspersed with blossoming lotus, the cover with the top decorated with a mandala formed of concentric circles, the reticulated sides with blossoming flowers issuing from curving tendrils above between a band of lappets and another of flowerheads, all executed in multi-coloured shades on vibrant turquoise ground. 20cm (7 7/8in) high.Footnotes:清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯轉經筒Provenance: a European private collection來源：歐洲私人收藏The prayer wheel is a very popular liturgical tool in Tibetan Buddhism. Its use by the faithful is equivalent to a prayer. The Qianlong emperor was a fervent devotee of Tibetan doctrine. He recognised the supremacy of the religious authority of the Dalai Lama, erected temples commissioned the production of artifacts that could serve in rituals, combining Tibetan forms and functions with decorative techniques of pure Chinese taste.See a related cloisonné enamel prayer wheel, Qianlong, illustrated in The Compendium of Collection in the Palace Museum. Enamels. Cloisonné in the Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2011, p.83, no.52.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 51
A SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT, BITONGMid Qing DynastyOf cylindrical form inset with a circular base, the lustrous stone of rich spinach-green tone with dark and white speckles. 17cm (6 6/8in) high.Footnotes:清中期 碧玉筆筒Provenance: Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, no.AJ 171 (label) An important European private collection來源：香港古董商嘉木堂，編號AJ 171（標籤）歐洲重要私人收藏The vibrant green colour of the present brushpot evokes vegetation and infuses the composition with a feeling of peace and tranquillity. Jade brushpots were precious objects placed on the desk of scholars and high-ranking officials.The term bitong was first used in the Maoshi caomu niaoshou chongyu shu, a 3rd-century commentary on the Shijing, a Confucian classic by Lu Ji, who lived in the Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period. At this time, the bitong consisted of 'a brush case made of two bamboo segments attached together and containing a pair of brushes'. The Chuanxin shiyong fang, a recipe book compiled in 1180, mentions the use of bitong as a tool to feed liquid medicine, and the Zhixu zazu, another Song dynasty text, mentions that '(Wang) Xianzhi owned a bitong named qiuzhong ('fur cup') made of spotted bamboo'. Yang believes that both were brush cases rather than brushpots; see Yang Zhishui and Guo Xuelei, 'Bitong shitong, xiangtong', in Shoucangjia, 2006: vol.3.The relatively ample supply of raw nephrite jade, after the Qianlong emperor invaded Khotan and captured the nephrite jade sources, meant that the Court's demand for jade desk items could be fully satisfied. The jade brushpots produced at the time include those made from spinach-green, pale green, Khotan-green, and yellow jade, as well as examples made from other semi-precious stones.碧玉琢製而成，取材大度，質地堅潤，色澤莊重古樸，紋路清晰自然，包漿淳樸溫和，渾然大氣。筆筒是我國傳統文房用具之一，在各類筆筒中，材料價值最高的當屬玉質筆筒。筆筒的製作需要玉料相對較大，且不能有大的綹裂和太多雜質。因為材料珍貴，玉質筆筒較竹木或瓷筆筒等少的多，多見於皇室貴冑之家。「筆筒」一詞最早出現在《毛詩草木鳥獸蟲魚疏》，這一三國吳人陸璣為《詩經》中提到的動植物進行註解的著作之中。據揚之水考證，彼時所稱之「筆筒」，應指收筆所用的筆套，類秦漢時期常見的兩根竹管連在一起而在其中置放一對毛筆的雙連式筒套，亦有單管之製。這一形制的筆筒流行時間很久，宋醫方著作《傳信適用方》記載了服藥時「用筆筒灌在喉中」，此處筆筒亦應指筆套。宋代《致虛雜俎》記載「（王）獻之有斑竹筆筒名裘鐘」，則為筆罩或曰筆帽之屬。而作為插筆之用的筆筒，或受竹刻製品之影響，流行於明清之際，沿用至今。見揚之水與郭學雷著，〈筆筒、詩筒、香筒〉，收錄於《收藏家》，2006年第3期。十八世紀後期，乾隆皇帝為捍衛西北邊防，平定回部，新疆正式歸入清中央政府的直接管轄之下，優質的白玉及碧玉玉料源源不斷貢入宮廷。本例製作之時，玉料豐富，品種激增，同期可見碧玉、青白玉、和闐白玉、黃玉等所製筆筒。For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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