Coptic Culture, Ca. 100 BC - AD 100 .A wooden comb with a decorative program consisting of nine concentric circles on a central rectangular panel. The comb is set with thick teeth on one side and fine teeth on the other. Fine tooth combs were important in the ancient world for controlling lice, nits, and other pests. These would have been used for someone's natural hair rather than the elaborate wigs favoured by Egyptians, which required more complex tools. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum Number: EA.55052. For additional information, see: Mirjam Andres, (2002) Hessisches Puppenmuseum Hanau, "Die Antikensammlung" p. 236.Size: 85mm x 65mm; Weight: 5gProvenance: Prince collection, 1990s-2014, acquired from Antiken Kabinett, Germany. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
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Militaria ; assorted webbing, belts, bags, and other items including entrenching tools, first aid kit, gas mask , bayonets, axe and canteens. (qty)Note: You must be over 18 to purchase this item. Collection must be made in person or by arrangement with a delivery company that provides an age verification service. We do not provide a shipping service for bladed items.
Roman and Medieval - A collection of 2nd and 3rd century artefacts located while metal detecting at Willersey near Broadway during the 1980s to include Trumpet and Dolphin type brooches, a small box brooch, also third century coinage, Samian and grey ware pottery shards with some decorated examples, iron worked tools and later Medieval lead including a horse pendant and a bodice strap junction with a photograph of the field location. (qty)
A collection of early 20th century Edwardian to mid century industrial & business catalogues and magazines. The lot comprising William Dibben & Sons Limited catalogue, Nicholls and Clarke Ltd. Catalogue No. 37, John Smith brassfoundry catalogue, Builders' Ironmongery and Brassfoundry Beanco Baxendale & Co. Ltd catalogue, Crowther of Syon Lodge antiques and decorations catalogue, Godwin Warren & Co. Ltd. Illustrated Price List of the Requirements for the Coach Builder, Engineer, Farrier, Blacksmith and Motor Body Builder, 1939 Osmond Mathews Ltd. General Catalogue, Fletcher Hardware Co. Ltd. catalogue, 1903 East London Rubber Co. Catalogue for 1903 - Pneumatic Tyres, Rubber Goods, Cycle Fittings, Tools & Accessories, Herbert Terry & Sons Ltd. A Perfect Spring catalogue incl. depictions of the Anglepoise lamp, 1900 Pattern Book of Cabinet and General Brassfoundry by Charles Lee & Sons, Louis G. Ford Eastbourne Catalogue No. 5, William Cooper's The Gardener's and Poultry Keeper's Guide and Illustrated Catalogue of Goods Manufactured and Supplied, G. Jones & Co. Ltd. illustrated catalogue, and Gardiner Sons and Co. Ltd. catalogue. All in orig. cloth bindings or paper wraps, some significantly worn & with repairs, otherwise a good and varied collection of industry catalogues. Largest folio.
Comprising a pair of lion-form andirons, height 26 1/4 inches; brass serpentine fender; and a group of fire tools on stand.No condition report? Click below to request one. *Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact and Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. Please contact the specialist department to request further information or additional images that may be available.Request a condition report
HENRY SCOTT TUKE (BRITISH, 1858-1929)Samwell sitting on a blue dug-out signed and dated 'H.S. Tuke 1924' (lower right) oil on canvas 39 x 29cm Provenance Geoffrey Sainsbury (The artist's nephew); Henry Shemilt; Acquired from the above in 1963 by Brian D. Price; Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature The Diary of Henry Scott Tuke 1923-1925, transcribed by B.D. Price; Catching the Light - The Art and Life of Henry Scott Tuke, Catherine Wallace, 2008, plate 131.FootnoteTuke painted the present work on 10th January 1924, and recorded the following entry in his diary:‘Out with Samwell and Ralph again and went further on – nearly got a small nurse shark with the paddle, it was struck several times but eventually got away. Landed and did a good study of Samwell sitting in a bluish dugout, with flickering shadows from overhanging trees. Worked hard at it all afternoon at home.’Unable to resist an adventure, Tuke was 67 when, in November 1923, he set sail for Jamaica on the Fyffe banana-ship, S.S. Coronado; part of an expedition funded by the author and explorer Lilian, Lady Richmond Brown and including Fredrick Albert Mitchell-Hedges, a fellow explorer whom Tuke met at a Lecture in Falmouth. Mitchell-Hedges is perhaps best remembered for claiming to have discovered a crystal skull in Belize in 1924, but failing to mention the artefact until the mid-1940s, following the sale of a strikingly similar crystal skull at Sothebys in October 1943; modern testing of the skull has revealed the markings of modern machinery rather than Mayan tools. This illustrious party docked in Port Royal on 10th December before travelling the 100 miles or so to the Black River. Tuke spent the following two months painting numerous oils and watercolours of the local landscape and people. Samuel, known as Samwell, was one of his favourite models, whom he described as an ‘…interesting type. Looks like a fierce savage but as gentle as a dove.’ Samwell appeared in several works, most notably, Black River Boatmen, Jamaica, an oil begun on 9th January, the day before the present work, which went on to be exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1925, no.500, and sold at Christies 2nd-16thDecember 2021, lot 97, for £30,000 hammer. Tuke skillfully captures a charmingly uncontrived moment as his subject stares, unselfconsciously, out to sea, the dappled light and heat are beautifully and deftly rendered, strongly evoking the unique atmosphere of the Caribbean.Condition Reportoriginal canvas; the paint surface is in excellent, clean condition; no sign of retouching under ultraviolet light, held in a plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
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