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Click here to subscribeFive small format sewing boxes and two needlebooks, comprising; a set of five bone tools in glazed top rectangular case, 12.8cm, a leatherette case with five tools, 13cm, a folding leather case by Barrett & Sons, Piccadilly, 13.5cm, 'The Clovelly Work Case' by W.M Bartleet & Sons, Redditch, 18.5cm, a folding leather case, a John James and Sons folding leather needlecase, 11cm, and another. (7)
An early 20th century six drawer mahogany dentist portable cabinet complete with dentists tools and drills, various phials, dressings, dentures and a large variety of single tooth dentures, 27 x 30cm. *Provenance, belonged to a gentleman in the early 1920s who was the local dentist for Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales and his dental surgery was the front room of a two up two down cottage.
Late Period, 664-332 BC. A green glazed composition amulet of Osiris seated on a throne wearing the atef crown, agricultural tools in his hands, mounted on an antique sheet gold frame with loop to the reverse. 13 grams, 40mm (1 3/4"). Ex Sampson collection; acquired on the UK art market. Very fine condition.
1st-2nd century AD. A bronze chatelaine comprising a round-section ring and tiered body, two wings with rod between and three cosmetic tools attached: a spike with baluster to the shank; a pair of tweezers with inturned ends; a miniature spoon with baluster to the shank. 25 grams, 13cm (5"). Private collection, UK; formed in the 1980s. [No Reserve] Very fine condition.
Late Period, 664-332 BC. A pale green finely modelled glazed composition shabti with tripartite wig, false beard, agricultural tools in the crossed hands, seed bag to the left shoulder, dorsal pillar, rectangular base, eight rows of hieroglyphic text to the lower body. 61 grams, 12.5cm (5"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; thence by descent. Fine condition.
Late Period, 664-332 BC. An olive green finely modelled glazed composition shabti with tripartite wig, false beard, agricultural tools in the crossed hands, seed bag to the left shoulder, dorsal pillar, rectangular base, eight rows of hieroglyphic text to the lower body. 67 grams, 12.5cm (5"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; thence by descent. Fine condition, moulding flaw to lower body.
3rd century BC-1st century AD. A mixed group of bronze miniature axeheads, looped and socketted, two with transverse ribs to the mouth, one with lateral lugs. See Green, M. The Religions of Civilian Roman Britain, British Archaeological Reports 24, 1976, pages 42-43; Green, M. Small Cult Objects from the Military Areas of Roman Britain, British Archaeological Reports 52, 1978, p.32-33. 23 grams total, 19-27mm (3/4 - 1"). Found on various sites in South East England. The axe as a sacred object may be traced back in Europe to at least the Bronze Age and model axes have been found at the shrine of Zeus at Dodona in Greece, and dedicated to the Mother Goddess in caves on the island of Crete, from the second millennium BC. In the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age the axe becomes associated with the sun cult and examples have been found decorated with wheels or swastikas, both solar symbols. The custom of manufacturing miniature tools and implements as votive offerings was extremely common in the Romano-Celtic world where they are commonly found associated with temple sites or deposited in springs, pools, lakes or rivers. The most common dedications of miniature axes are to Jupiter, Minerva or the Deae Matres, the Mother Goddesses, and the sacred axe is depicted being held by the Celtic god Succelus on pottery from the Hadrians Wall region. Examples of miniature votive axes have been found at shrines in Britain such as Hockwold in Norfolk, Brigstock in Northamptonshire and Woodeaton in Oxfordshire. [3] Fine condition.
Taxidermy: A very rare set of Rowland Ward taxidermist tools early 20th century in leather case with Rowland Ward 'The Jungle' 166 Piccadilly, London 19cm.; 7½ins high Rowland, Edwin, and Henry Ward Rowland Ward (1848-1912) was the most celebrated taxidermist in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He built up a hugely successful business that operated from Piccadilly, the most fashionable quarter of nineteenth century London. This business was so strongly based that it continued to operate long after Rowland's death; in fact it survived in London until the early 1970s. In his lifetime he made many influential innovations in the craft of taxidermy, but in these he was simply carrying on, and improving on, a family tradition. His father, Henry Ward (1812-1878) had travelled to America as a young man to serve as taxidermist to the illustrious bird artist John James Audubon (1785-1851), and prepared many of the specimens on which Audubon based the bird portraits for which he became so famous, and which were central to his celebrated book The Birds of America (1827-1839). On his return home, Henry Ward took over a taxidermy firm that operated in the West End of London, and became a significant tradesman in his own right. Henry's oldest son Edwin, and then Rowland, were introduced into the business at an early age and Edwin soon became an important figure on the London zoological scene. Long before his father's death he opened his own studio in Wigmore Street where he produced work of high quality. However, comparatively little is known of him, and he retired in 1879 for unknown reasons and soon after emigrated to the US. This left Rowland as the sole representative of the Ward family and he raised the family profile to heights that even his brother and father had not been able to reach. In addition to his attainments in taxidermy, Rowland became an important publisher and was responsible for the production of many books on natural history and travel subjects. In this endeavour he was building on a tradition begun by his brother who had produced a book called A Knapsack Manual for Sportsmen in the Field (1872) that Rowland later expanded to become his own big success The Sportsman's Handbook to Practical Collecting, a publication so influential that it ran to no less than eleven editions.
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