Timeline Auction - Antiquities, Natural History and Coins

1st-2nd century AD. A ceramic whistle formed as a facing human mask with pursed lips and lentoid eyes, segmented hair; mouthpiece to the neck, ven...

1st-3rd century AD. A mixed group of bone items comprising: four round-section pins; a Hercules club amulet; a bodkin; two pins with carved finial...

14th-15th century AD. A bronze rectangular case with hinged lid and sliding hook fastener, containing a small folding balance arm with open suspen...

10th-13th century AD. A mixed group comprising: a disc with notched edge, reserved image of a bird; a disc with stamped design of a bird and star;...

12th-15th century AD. A tubular lead-alloy whistle with flange to one edge, circumferential rings, scooped mouthpiece and small hole, vent to the ...

4th century BC. A sheet gold discoid mask with repoussé female facial features, almond-shaped eyes, arched brows developing to a trapezoidal nose,...

3rd century BC-3rd century AD. A pair of gold sewing accessories comprising: a hollow-formed reel or bobbin with rolled rims; a round-section tape...

Late Period, 664-332 BC. A rectangular gold repoussé plaque with seated goddess Isis holding a staff-sceptre, wearing vulture and sun disc crown, ...

1st millennium BC. A group of bronze items comprising: a leaf-shaped spearhead with raised central line, pierced to the shaft; a leaf-shaped razor...

8th-6th century BC. A ceramic whistle formed as a bird, possibly a duck, with prominent curved beak and raised 'tail'; four holes for air flow. 3...

5th-7th century AD. A suite of silver belt fittings comprising: a buckle with domed loop, heater-shaped plaque, D-section tongue with beast-head d...

6th century AD. A large flat-section tinned bronze counterplate from a buckle set with three domed bosses, each with a beaded collar, incised thre...

7th-8th century AD. A silver buckle comprising: a flat-section loop with dragon-head terminals; a curved tongue with violin-shaped plaque, hatched...

5th-8th century AD. A bronze belt buckle of D-shape with leaf-shaped pin; long belt late with scrolling plant motif and lobed border; attachment r...

5th-6th century AD. A gilt-bronze belt set comprising: a buckle with D-shaped loop, round-section tongue, triangular plaque with inset garnets clo...

7th century AD. A gilt-bronze hollow-formed disc-shaped brooch with a central dot around which are four S-shaped birds with large eyes, curved bea...

8th century AD. A hollow fabricated pendant comprising: transverse tubular suspension bar with beaded wire collars, granule and beaded wire detail...

10th century AD. A mixed group of bronze belt fittings comprising: fourteen shield-shaped plaques with pellet detailing; a plaque with loop to acc...

18th-19th century AD. A cross formed from two riveted flat-section iron bars with pierced flared ends, three with hooks; niello-inlaid motifs to t...

8th-12th century AD. A mixed group of ceramic items comprising: a ceramic seal with rectangular plaque inscribed with kufic script; a stamp seal w...

13th century AD. A gilt bronze belt buckle with interlace parttern to the frame; belt plate with border of raised dots and row of lozenge shapes t...

14th-15th century AD. A bronze whistle formed as three bulbs with suspension loop, chamfered mouthpiece and D-shaped hole. 47 grams, 82mm (3 1/4"...

19th century AD. A large Coco de Mer nut, or Lodoicea, with fibrous husk and bi-lobed shape. 925 grams, 32cm (12 1/4"). Property of a Sussex, UK ...

Jurassic Period, 200-145 million years BP. A fossil 'Phragmacone sp. belemnite in matrix, in old card tray with A.B. Cotterill Collection, Wollato...

Ordovician-Permian, 488-252 million years BP. A group of eight brachiopods, including one spirifer and seven terebratulids, in old white card tray...

Ordovician-Silurian, 488-415 million years BP. A group consisting of one Silurian and two Ordovician trilobites, two in old white card trays with ...

Silurian-Triassic, 444-200 million years BP. A group of six mixed bivalves and gastropods, in old white or brown card trays, five A.B. Cotterill C...

Cretaceous Period, 95 million years BP. A well preserved Rhynchodercitis pipe fish in matrix plaque; with label. 508 grams, 19.5cm (7 3/4"). Prop...

Jurassic-Cretaceous, 201-66 million years BP. A mixture of Cretaceous Hoplitids including Euhoplites (probably from Folkestone), and Macrocephalit...

Cretaceous Period, 145-66 million years BP. A group of six fossil echinoids, principally Micraster sp. and Echinocorys sp., probably from Kent, UK...

A group of nine recent shells, comprising four echinoids, two gastropods, a bivalve, and a barnacle on a gastropod, in white card trays with A.B. ...

Carboniferous Period 359-299 million years BP. A group of three large diameter (up to 33mm) crinoid stems, in white card trays with A.B. Cotterill...

A matrix specimen with numerous areas of azurite, and uniquely, needle-like sprays of malachite, in white card tray with adhesive tape label readi...

A matrix specimen with numerous areas of azurite, and uniquely, needle-like sprays of malachite, in white card tray with adhesive tape label readi...

In this specimen, unusually coloured dark orange pyromorphite hexagonal prisms rest on a brecciated limestone matrix, in old white card tray with ...

A sawn block of red-brown sandstone, polished on two sides, with areas of precious opal diffracting light in primarily purples, blues and greens, ...

A pair of hexagonal acupressure implements with one rounded end and one pointed end, in white card tray. See Bonewitz, Dr. Ronald Louis, Rocks & M...

A mass of needle-like crystals of selenite gypsum (?"). See Bonewitz, Dr. Ronald Louis, Rocks & Minerals, 2008, p.212-213. 220 grams, 14cm (5 1/2"...

A sawn block of red-brown sandstone, polished on two sides, with areas of precious opal diffracting light in primarily purples, blues and greens, ...

Circa 3000 BC. A lapis lazuli cylinder seal with figure and animals; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late ...

2nd millennium BC. A plano-convex black agate seal matrix with ibex and objects in the field. 24 grams, 30mm (1 1/4"). Property of a London, UK c...