Byzantine Style Icon, Wood, Crete, 15/17thCentury: In 1453, the capitol of the Byzantine empire, Constantinople (also known as New Rome), was captured by Mehmed the Conqueror, the seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire....
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19th C. African Kuba Figural Wood Pipe:Central Africa, Dominican Republic of Congo, Kuba peoples, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A stunning, hand-carved, wooden pipe used for smoking tobacco displaying...
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1. Three Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets,circa 2100-2000 B.C.
Cuneiform writing emerged from the practice of marking clay tokens to record economic transactions which became more numerous and complicated with...
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A substantial canvas and leather boundtrunk containing a quantity of textiles including yellow satin theatrical costume in the 17th century style, embroidered cream silk shawl, lace panels, two hats with floral...
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A quantity of ceramics, 18th/19th centuryincluding; three Copeland creamware pedestal dishes, 19.8cm wide, a floral painted bowl, a pair of shaped early 19th creamware century blue and white bases, 12cm high, coffee...
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Various keys, to include very earlycentury example, with loop ends, 6cm wide, a 17thC key in iron, a small quantity of other clock watch and other keys etc., (a quantity)....
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Science and Engineering, a quantityincluding Lecornu, J. La Navigation Aerienne. Paris: Librairie Nony & Co, 1903., 4to, half red Morocco; Dalton, John Meteorological Observations and Essays. London: Baldwin...
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AN AUTHENTIC EGYPTIAN MUMMY HEAD
TheWestern world has been fascinated with mummies since the 16th
Century. Around this time, it became common to grind up Egyptian mummies and use the resulting powder as a medicine...
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SLAVERY - Jonathan DICKINSON.Three autographletters signed to Jonathan Dickinson, from Isaac Norris, John Lewis and Samuel Tudman, each mentioning the shipment of slaves to Philadelphia. V.p. [but Philadelphia, Jamaica...
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A mixed lot believed to be a Celticbrooch, 1st century AD, approx. 3cm, six Byzantium arrow heads, 5th century AD, and a quantity of ancient coins....
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Chinese Shang Dynasty Silvered BronzeZun - XRF Tested: East Asia, China, Late Shang Dynasty, ca. 12th to 11th century BCE. A fascinating ritual wine vessel, a cast silvered bronze "zun". The body is an elongated...
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Elegrant Gnathian Skyphos Ribbed Body:Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulia, Gnathian, ca. late 4th century BCE to 3rd century BCE. A magnificent Gnathian hand painted terracotta skyphos (deep wine glass), artfully...
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Music.- Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus) LACLEMENZA DI TITO engraved vignette to title, a little light soiling to title, contemporary sheep-backed boards, worn at extremities, Vienna, S. A. Steiner, n.d. [c.1795];...
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SHAKER DUSTPAN CANTERBURY, NEW HAMPSHIRE,CIRCA 1840
A noteworthy example because of the bright red handle and the inscription on the bottom "Harriet Johns 1880." The Canterbury Shakers made tin dustpans with turned...
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An oil painting on canvas of a floralstill life in the 17th century Dutch manner, signed bottom left R Garzon, together with a 19th century coloured botanical engraving of a narcissus, a quantity of coloured...
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LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY ORIENTAL BLACKLACQUER AND MOTHER O'PEARL INLET JEWELLERY BOX, of sarcophagus shape, the decoration depicting exotic birds and prunus blossoms interior with lift out tray and raised on toupe...
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EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PAINTED CASTIRON 'NEGRO' MONEY BANK, with articulated arm action, retaining original paint work, 6" high and a SMALL QUANTITY OF PRE-DECIMAL COINAGE, contained there in...
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A large quantity of pewter, including:an inverted pear shape tea caddy decorated with wrigglework tulips and other flowers, with a cover, and a worn mark to the base '...ries', possibly late 17th century, 5in...
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Gordon, Colonel Louis
Circa 50 Autographletters from Louis A. Gordon (1867-1914, nephew of General Gordon) to his mother and others, c. 1875-1913, written as a schoolboy and officer; Gordon, General CharlesAutograph...
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WHYTOCK & REID, EDINBURGH CABINETMAKERS
ANARCHIVE OF MATERIAL RELATING TO EDINBURGH CABINETMAKERS WHYTOCK & REID
31 binders and a box of photographs and drawings dating from c.1890s - 1980s, to include 45 pencil,...
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