Lot 1485
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P. Irregular-shaped scraper with some cortex remaining; marked '2.S5.1244.A / Twydall'. The Twydall fin...
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Late 1st century B.C.-early 1st century A.D. Mixed group of decorated Samian ware fragments mounted on card display boards, one with old typed lab...
11h-7th century B.C. With prominently curved guard extending out from the ricasso partly framing the hilt, thick midrib extending slightly above t...
Lot 1414
Stone Ballista Catapult Shot
Roman, 1st-3rd century A.D. or later. Roughly spherical stone cobble with impact scar. See Wilkins, A., Roman Imperial Artillery, Solway Print, 20...
Lot 551
Minoan Black Stone Vessel
AM II-MHIB/IIA, circa 30th-19th century B.C. Substantial carved mortar with narrow base and biconvex body; heavily chipped. Cf. a similar vessel i...
Lot 694
Roman Bronze Medical Spatula
1st-4th century A.D. Comprising a rounded leaf-shaped finial, round-section shank with rounded tip. See Milne, J.S., Surgical Instruments in Greek...
14th century A.D. Piriform body with horizontal bands to the shoulder, flanged collar, domed filler-hole, intended to be filled with explosive liq...
Jurassic Period, circa 155 million years B.P. A Rastellum carinatum fossil bivalve. 121 grams, 66 mm (2 5/8 in.). From a Cambridgeshire, UK, co...
Lot 1358
Viking Age Iron T-Shaped Axehead
10th-12th century A.D. Narrow T-shaped blade with curved edge, large D-shaped socket with lateral triangular flanges and rectangular extension to ...
1968-2008 A.D. Joseph Campbell - the Hero with a Thousand Faces - Princeton, 1968 (reprint), card covers, 416 pp; Nicole B. Hansen (ed.) - Omm Set...
Pleistocene Period, 2.58 million-11,700 years B.P. Comprising three leg bones (radius, tibia) from Coelodonta antiquitatis. 5.65 kg total, 37-40 ...
1911-2017 A.D. Josephine McCarthy - The Book of gates: A Magical Translation - London, 2017, card covers, 347 pp; Joseph Kaster - The Wisdom of An...
Devonian to Cretaceous Period, circa 417-100 million years B.P. An interesting mix of various fossils comprising: a pterosaurus Coloborhynchus mor...
1st century A.D. Fragments of wall plaster with rendered surface painted red with white detailing to the edge; impression of timber laths to the r...
Pliocene Period, circa 5.2-2.5 million years B.P. A partial Carcharocles megalodon tooth displaying good polished enamel. 268 grams, 13.5 cm (5 3...
1969-2000 A.D. Terence Du Quesne - Jackal at the Shaman's Gate - Thame, 1991, card covers, 135 pp; Theodore M. Davies - The Tomb of Iouiya and Tou...
14th century A.D. Piriform body with radiating vertical lugs to the shoulder and decorated panels between, tiered neck, domed filler-hole, intende...
Circa 1900-1800 B.C. Haematite with four standing figures; accompanied by a section of an old typed scholarly note on a collection of 61 seals, ty...
1969-1990 A.D. Carol Andrews - Ancient Egyptian Jewellery - London, 1990, hardback with dustwrapper, 208 pp; Sir W.M Flinders Petrie - Scarabs and...
1993-2023 A.D. Roma Numismatics - Sale XXI, 24/25 March 2021 - card covers, 390pp; Roma Numismatics - Sale XXII, 7/8 October 2021 - card covers, 3...
.1948-1989 A.D. John F. Nunn - Ancient Egyptian Medicine - London, 1996, hardback with dustwrapper, 240 pp; Lise Manniche - An Ancient Egyptian He...
Lot 1404
Bactrian Bronze Eye Axehead
3rd-2nd millennium B.C. Fan-shaped blade; an apotropaic eye in relief to each side of the socket; wing-shaped extension to the rear. Cf. Gernez, G...
Late 2nd-1st millennium B.C. With frieze depicting a hunting scene with a lion leaping to attack a kilted hero with a kopis supported by a small f...
9th-11th century A.D. or earlier. Gold cup with hoop and suspension loop, with glass insert. 1.37 grams, 17 mm (5/8 in.). Ex property of a late...
1471-1483 A.D. Second reign. Obv: facing crowned bust within double tressure of nine arcs, trefoil on each cusp, C on breast, beaded circles and l...
Dated 1911 A.D. Second coinage. Obv: engraved with 'ANTICIPATION / MARCH 16TH / 1911' over profile bust with GEORGIVS V DEI GRA BRITT OMN REX lege...
1956-1991 A.D. Jean-Philippe Lauer - Saqqara: The Royal Cemetery of Memphis. Excavations and Discoveries since 1850 - London, 1976, hardback with ...
1st-2nd century A.D. Including sherds of rim and base with inked accession numbers; some with impressed stamps; inked collector's notes including ...
Pliocene Period, circa 5.2-2.5 million years B.P. A Carcharocles megalodon tooth displaying good polished enamel. 150 grams, 10 cm (4 in.). Fro...
1st century A.D. With flat base and central boss, flared rim, incised rings to the inner face. Cf. Tassinari, S., La Vaisselle de Bronze, Romaine ...
Lot 1366
Marlik Type Bronze Tanged Spearhead
12th-11th century B.C. With heavily ridged and tapering blade, short collared shaft and a square-section tapering tang bent at the tip. Cf. Khoras...
Lot 3101
Commemorative Medals - The Rulti Oath - Rütlischwur in Essen - Bronze Medallion By Karl Goetz
Dated 1923 A.D. World War I, 1918-1933. Obv: Krupp Works factory workers surround a 'swearing hand' elevated above them on a stick; with right arm...
1948-1973 A.D. Eighteen volumes comprising: Vol 34 (December 1948); 42-46 (December 1956-December 1960); 48-59 (December 1962-August 1973); all ca...
Late 3rd millennium B.C. Haematite with the weather and storm god Adad standing of his symbol animal (the bull), holding in his left hand the ligh...
Fell 1516 A.D., discovered 1958 A.D. A nickel iron meteorite (111CD) with a composition of 92.35% iron and 6.96% nickel. 36 grams, 48 mm (1 7/8 i...
2nd millennium B.C. Black stone with a figure wearing a long robe and horned cap, holding a sceptre, other hand raised in greeting to a central ma...
14th century A.D. Piriform body with vertical bands of pellets and roundels, knop finial, tiered and domed filler-hole, intended to be filled with...
Lot 1422
Margiana Bronze Axehead
Late 2nd millennium B.C. With a narrow neck and rounded bill-shaped blade, rounded wings to the socket and square-headed stud behind. Cf. Gorelik,...
11th century A.D. Comprising: a tongue-shaped mount of Williams's Class A Type II with pierced trefoil final, high-relief wolf in profile with hea...
19th-16th century B.C. Haematite with a standing naked female facing frontally, a male worshipper wearing long robes and cap, hands raised in pray...
364-375 A.D. Lyons mint. Obv: DN VALENTI-NIANVS PA, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right. Rev: VOTI V MVLT (sic) in four lines within wrea...
Lot 1406
Heavy Western Asiatic Bronze Axehead
Late 3rd millennium B.C. With swept blade, large socket with shallow raised circumferential rib and a vertical rib to the rear. For similar exampl...
Circa 900-600 B.C. With bearded male between winged horses; accompanied by an old scholarly note, written and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Profess...
1st century A.D. Comprising four curved sherds of burnished redware with carinated profile and scrolled tendrils in low-relief with rosettes and p...
Lot 1397
Luristan Bronze Sword Blade
Late 2nd-early 1st millennium B.C. A substantial leaf-shaped blade with raised midrib extending to a short tang, ribbed fullers with curved ends e...
Lot 557
Etruscan Terracotta Foot
Circa 6th-2nd century B.C. Right foot from a statue, hollow-formed and modelled in naturalistic style, with toes slightly curled; with surface dep...
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1970-2009 A.D. John W. Mussell - The Banknote Yearbook (6th Edition) - 2009, hardback, 512 pp, colour images; Standard Catalogue of British Coins ...
Lot 1168
Hittite Bronze Statuette of a Stag
2nd-1st millennium B.C. Modelled in the round, the stag standing with legs firmly set, ears and antlers carefully modelled; mounted on a custom-ma...
Lot 1497
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P. D-shaped scraper with waxy surface; with an old inked inscription: '1.1338 / Twydall'. The Twydall f...
Lot 1495
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P. Triangular burin; with an old inked inscription: '4.FB.1116.A / Twydall'. The Twydall finds are disc...
Lot 1072
Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet
2nd millennium B.C. Pillow-shaped clay tablet with cuneiform text to both broad faces; chipped. Cf. MacGregor, N., A History of the World in 100 O...
1960-2001 A.D. Bika Reed - Rebel in the Soul: A Sacred Text of Ancient Egypt - London, 1978, card covers,141 pp; sally B. Johnson - Cobra Goddesse...
Circa 6th-8th century A.D. Tongue-shaped pendant with integral loop, obverse with stylised figure of a horseman spearing a creature, lion below an...
6th century A.D. Piriform in profile with two thick lug handles to the shoulder, obverse with low-relief facing figure holding a large cross and o...
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C. Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the S...
Pre-Classic Period, circa 1200-500 B.C. Crouching figure with exaggerated facial features, pierced for suspension; mounted on a square stand with ...
1961-1999 A.D. Stuart Piggott (ed.) - The Dawn of Civilization - London, 1961, hardback, 404 pp; Joanne Jessop - the X-Ray Picture Book of Big Bui...
Lot 1425
Flintlock Pocket Pistol
18th century A.D. With 40mm (1½) turn-off barrel, box-lock with sliding safety marked 'CLARK' left and 'LONDON' right; fitted with plain wood butt...
1135-1154 A.D. Local and irregular issues of the Civil War, Flag / Ornaments type of York. Obv: + stief-n-[e r], crowned and draped bust right, ho...
Lot 1367
Western Asiatic Bronze Sword Sheath
2nd-1st millennium B.C. Triangular in plan, terminating in an exaggerated curving point; the outer face pierced towards the top and with a raised ...
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