TimeLine Auctions Mayfair Hotel Antiquities Sale

13th-14th century AD. A bronze heater-shaped shield with chequy field to one face, three scallops to the reverse (the Dacre family arms"). 30.5 g...

13th century AD. A heater-shaped bronze harness pendant with gilding remaining on the suspension lug and upper portion of the shield, two lions pa...

12th-14th century AD. A bronze plaque pendant, square with a bulb to each corner and pierced suspension lug, inscribed 'A?IOC / A?IOC / A?IOC / IH...

12th-13th century AD. A detailed bronze candlestick formed as a crouching lion with open jaws, hatched panels to the chest, recurved tail with ser...

14th century AD. A bronze adjustable candleholder comprising a tapering socket and hinged pricket with geometric ornament. Cf. Egan, G. The Mediev...

Early 13th century AD. A vellum leaf from a single-volume Bible with the Latin translation of Saint Jerome (the Vulgate); each side with two colum...

Circa 1470 AD. A beautiful example of a vellum page from a Book of Hours, written in Rouen, Normandy, France; each side a single block of blacklet...

Early 13th century AD. A vellum leaf from a single-volume Bible; each side with two columns of 44-45 lines in black ink in a small blackletter boo...

Early 13th century AD. A vellum leaf from a bible written in Paris, with dense text in two columns to each side, the batarde script with minims of...

Late 14th century AD. A vellum leaf from a Book of Hours written in Paris, with a block of text to each side in batarde script with sparse use of ...

12th century AD or later. A lead-alloy heater-shaped panel with cross finial, border with pellet studs and wavy line segments, central panel with ...

12th-13th century AD. A gilt-bronze fragment from a spectacular altar cross comprising a single arm with hatched panel and keeled crystal in a cel...

15th-16th century AD. An iron knife with single-edged blade, scale-tang hilt with pattern of inset silver(?) pins, hexagonal stud to one face. 21...

11th-12th century AD. A carved sandstone finial with sinuous zoomorphic ornament; weathered on five of the six faces. 15.4 kg, 23cm (9"). Found H...

12th-14th century AD. A substantial sandstone block from an architectural feature with naive carved human face, weathered on three faces. 33.1 kg...

16th century AD. A gold signet ring comprising a slender flat-section hoop and discoid bezel with ropework border, incuse heraldic lion rampant fa...

16th century AD. A gold Tudor Period finger ring with D-section hoop, disc bezel with beaded rim and ornate shield with three keys place verticall...

Circa 1600 AD. A spectacular late Elizabethan (or early Jacobean) gold ring of the Harvey family of Launceston comprising a flat discoid bezel wit...

16th century AD. A D-section gold hoop with expanding shoulders, discoid bezel with beaded border, initials 'I E' over a looped entwined ribbon wi...

Dated 1731 AD. A gold finger ring, from early in the reign of George II (1727-1760 AD), with reserved, elongated skeleton and skull-and-crossed-bo...

Dated (18)77 AD. A gold ring with D-section hoop, with a stylised skull to the outer face, inscribed to the inner face in italic hand 'In mem J. T...

18th century AD. A D-section gold finger ring with italic text to the inner face '* Till deathe noe change '. See Evans, J. English Posies and Pos...

17th-18th century AD. A round-section gold hoop with free end coiled about the wrist of a hand with palm open supporting the cell for a heart-shap...

17th-18th century AD. A gold finger ring with cusped hoop, expanding shoulders each with a recessed teardrop panel, ribbed cuffs and bezel formed ...

16th-17th century AD. A gold D-section ring with clasped hands bezel, green enamel to the cuffs. See Oman, C.C. British Rings 800-1914, London, 19...

16th century AD. A mixed group of six silver hooked fasteners including granulated dome, lozenge, rosette and other types. See Read, B. Hooked-Cla...

16th century AD. A mixed group of seven silver hooked fasteners including quatrefoil, trefoil, rosette and other types. See Read, B. Hooked-Clasps...

16th century AD. A mixed group of five silver pins each a plaque with S-shaped shank; designs include a facing mask, heart, rosette and other type...

16th century AD. A mixed group of ten silver eye fasteners including heart-shaped, triangular, crown, trefoil and other types. See Read, B. Hooked...

16th century AD. A mixed group of ten silver-gilt fastener eyes including triangular, facing mask, crown and other types. See Read, B. Hooked-Clas...

16th century AD. A mixed group of ten silver hooked fasteners including trefoil, rosette, rectangular, quatrefoil and other types. See Read, B. Ho...

16th century AD. A mixed group of fourteen hooked fasteners including trefoil, heart-shaped, granulated sic and other types. See Read, B. Hooked-C...

16th century AD. A mixed group of ten silver hooked fasteners including lozenge, rectangle with lugs, trefoil, quatrefoil and other types. See Rea...

16th century AD. A mixed group of thirteen silver hooked clasps including domed, frond, trefoil and other types. See Read, B. Hooked-Clasps and Ey...

16th century AD. A mixed group of ten silver hooked fasteners including fan-shaped, rectangular, trefoil, triangular and other types. See Read, B....

16th century AD. A mixed group of nine silver hooked fasteners including triangular, trefoil, rectangular, lover's knot and other types. See Read,...

16th century AD. A mixed group of nine silver eye fasteners including rectangular, leaf-shaped, disc and other types. See Read, B. Hooked-Clasps a...

16th century AD. A group of three silver clothes fasteners comprising: one with hexagonal plaque and hollow domed face, applied granules and filig...

16th century AD. A gold hooked clothes fastener with lozenge plaque, granulated rim and inset glass panel (simulating onyx), hook to the reverse. ...

1642 AD. A silver cast and chased badge of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, by Thomas Simon (or Thomas Rawlins?), bifacial with obverse portrait bu...

Late 19th-early 20th century AD or earlier. A deep silver elaborately decorated bowl, the base domed with petalled rope border, eight stylised swi...

Dated 1598 AD or later. A ceramic salt-glazed jug with tiered base, drum-shaped body and domed shoulder, broad neck with pouring lip to the mouth;...

Early 18th century AD. A clear glass goblet with tapering sides, balustered stem and domed base, domed lid with knop handle; the body with three r...

17th century AD. A dark green bell-shaped 'onion' bottle with pontil base and tapering neck, iridescent surface, flange to the rim; sealed with or...

17th century AD. A dark green bell-shaped 'onion' bottle with pontil base and tapering neck, iridescent surface, flange to the rim; sealed with or...

18th-19th century AD or earlier. An ellipsoid carved ivory plaque with raised border, low-relief figures, a male holding a censer in his left hand...

20th century AD. An ellipsoid garnet cloison with intaglio sphinx and Sassanian script legend, set in a gold finger ring with addorsed female bust...

19th century AD. A substantial gold cruciform champ-levé plaque pendant with enamel-filled cells, scooped finial to each arm and discoid cell, fla...

1893 AD. A substantial bronze figure of Hercules by Francois Laurent Rolard (1842-1912), made in 1893, depicting the hero with draped lionskin man...

Lower Cretaceous Period, 146-100 million years BP. A large fossil skull of a Mosasaur sp. dinosaur; presenting as viewed from above, lacking the b...

Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years BP. A large pair of Charonosaurus sp. hadrosaur eggs on matrix retaining evidence of the original leathery...

Cretaceous Period, circa 100 million years BP. A large montage slab in wooden frame comprising a sea-fan(?) and two applied fish fossils. 23 kg, ...

Triassic Period, 250-200 million years BP. A complete fossil of Keichousaurus hui on a rectangular matrix. 1.3 kg, 31cm (12"). From an old Bristo...

Eocene Period, 56-33 million years BP. A very large fossil fish Diplomystus sp. on a rectangular matrix. 3.4 kg, 53cm (21"). From an old Lincolns...

Upper Jurassic, 140 million years BP. A fossil dragonfly Isophlebia aspasia on a matrix. 380 grams, 12.5cm (5"). From an old Lincolnshire collect...

Oligocene Period, 45 million years BP. A fossil skull of Merycoidodon culbertsoni, an oreodont from the Brule Formation, Sioux County, Nebraska, U...

Eocene Period, 58-36 million years BP. A fossil mud lobster (crayfish) Thalassina sp., in matrix. 87 grams, 14cm (5 1/2"). From an old Bristol pa...

Lower Cretaceous Period, 100 million years BP. A large, cut and polished Speetoniceras versicolor ammonite fossil displaying the internal chamber ...

Pliocene Epoch, 3 million years BP. A very large woolly mammoth tooth Mammuthus primigenius, displaying some good root and chewing surface. 5.3 k...

A spectacular large polished sphere of lapis lazuli mined and polished to show its beautiful structure. 10 kg, 18cm (7"). Property of an Indian g...