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Lot 122
A Danish flint dagger and eleven Neolithic flint implements Late Neolithic, circa 2000-1700 B.C.The dagger of grey flint with slender leaf-shaped blade, the slightly flared grip of lozenge cross section; the flint implements including a Danish dark grey flint lunate sickle, 11.3cm long; three flint arrowheads and a leaf-shaped example; a pointed tool; a small thin butted axe; a discoidal scraper; and three flint tools, 17.5cm long max.; together with four other flints (16)Footnotes:Provenance:Private collection, UK, acquired prior to 1986.The above dagger belongs to Scandinavian flint dagger Type II. For an example of a Danish flint dagger with similarly proportioned grip and blade, see A. MacGregor, Antiquities form Europe and the Near East in the collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, p. 80, fig. 4.217.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 64
Leaf from a Registrum Brevium, a register of writs, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [England (probably London or Westminster), mid-fourteenth century] Single leaf, with single column of 33 lines of a small and compact anglicana chancery hand, paragraph marks in red or dark blue, with reference words set off in outer margin with same, some capitals of these reference words touched in red, original folio no. 'lxxxxii' in upper outer corner of recto, lower outer corner once folded in, small spots and stains, somewhat cockled, else good condition, 192 by 127mm.Provenance:1. The parent codex of this leaf was written as a practical manual of procedural law for a working lawyer in medieval England. The Registrum Brevium functioned like case law digests in the modern practice of law, listing the grounds on which previous cases had been filed and thus providing lawyers with a reference list of causes of action that could be brought to court.2. Perhaps to be identified with the copy of the text with the same measurements but written in a single column of 34 lines, which was sold in Sotheby's, 10 December 1962, lot 144, to 'Dawson', perhaps the Los Angeles bookdealers. Another leaf certainly from the same manuscript as the present one was offered in Pirages, cat. 70 (2016), no. 198, with that written on 34 lines. The Sotheby's codex included 100 leaves, and was from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (his MS. 7379, his sale in the same rooms, 27 April 1903, lot 954), and had a late fifteenth-century note on fol. 30v signed by Robert Hardcowtre of 'ley hide' in Staffordshire.3. A label once on the reverse of a card frame this leaf was mounted in when acquired noted this as a part of 'TFI 1964', a reference to the portfolios issued by Foliophiles Inc., a company founded by G.M.L. Brown of New York, then handed over to the notorious Harold J. Maker in the early 1950s (also known as Harold von Maker and Peter Wertz; on whose later con-man activities see T. McShane, Stolen Masterpiece Tracker, 2006), and from 1963 run by Alfred W. Stites (1922-2016) of Washington DC. Stites proceeded to create and sell portfolio sets of leaves from manuscripts and printed books as teaching tools under the title 'Pages from the Past'. These were produced and sent out with great rapidity and turnover of contents, with Stites producing 18 such sets in 1964-66. Intact examples of these sets survive in Columbia, University of Missouri, Ellis library (including another leaf from the same legal manuscript with fol. no. 'lxxii'); Western Michigan University library; and St. Louis Public Library. 4. On the same card frame was mounted the business card of M. Revak & Co., Art, Letters, Literature of the Law, of Tucson, Arizona, and evidently sold by him.5. Acquired by Roger Martin from a private North American collector in 2018.
Lot 279
A Meissen large figure of 'Count Brühl's Tailor', late 19th centuryAfter the 18th-century model by J.J. Kaendler, wearing a yellow coat reserved with borders of floral scrollwork, a purple waistcoat with similar borders, yellow breeches and black riding boots, a bag containing tailor's tools slung over his shoulder, a pin cushion on the coat's rear, scissors and an iron on his horns and further items on the shaggy coat, 43cm high, crossed swords mark in blue (some restoration)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThis 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
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