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Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork (32)

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Precolumbian Copper Tweezers, West Mexico

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 89940 (stock# LLL.0250)

Precolumbian Copper Tweezers, West Mexico
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$150.00 

This must be one of the largest Precolumbian tweezers (LLL250) ever made! Measuring 4 15/16” in length, and in overall very good condition (it still works) with some slight bends and a great patina, it was found in west Mexico in the mid-1900s. From the Langdon collection, the tweezers is probably Tarascan in origin dating c.1000-1500AD. Ordinarily, these are called depilators and were used for removing facial and body hair. This one, as large as it is, must have been used on a porcupine! A grea ...click for details


Pre-Columbian Gold from the Sinu & Tairona Cultures

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 1066964 (stock# EB.1005)

Pre-Columbian Gold from the Sinu & Tairona Cultures
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$5750.00 

Measuring 2 3/4" long from the tip of its tail to the end of its slender beak, this stunning golden relic (EB.1005) of the ancient Pre-Columbian Sinu horizon of Colombia faithfully depicts the always popular hummingbird, an image noted in many examples of worldwide prehistoric art. In excellent condition, this relic once decorated the end of a hand-held wand that was perhaps ritually used by either a shaman or a tribal leader. Dating c.400-1600AD, the bird was made using the 'cire perdu ...click for details


Twelve Pre-columbian Silver And Copper Items

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 724413 (stock# LFG.PCMTL)

Twelve Pre-columbian Silver And Copper Items
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The twelve Pre-Columbian silver, copper and bronze items in this lot (LFG 433. 434. 445-448, 453, 456, 462, 471, 472 and 474) are all from Bolivia or Peru, with the majority attributed to Tiwanaku near Lake Titicaca. Tupos or shawl pins, tumis, pendants and pins are shown in this selection, all from a single collection. An interesting and representative group, each individually priced, a number of these could well serve as ‘type’ examples. Each photo shows first our inventory number in brackets ...click for details


Twelve Pre-columbian Gold Tube Beads: Panama

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 464189 (stock# PC.GOLD.B)

Twelve Pre-columbian Gold Tube Beads: Panama
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This group of twelve, individually priced Pre-Columbian gold tube beads (102.57A-H D and 94.113O, V, W and Y HD) is attributed as a group to the Veraguas horizon of Panama dating c.500-1200AD. In very good to perfect condition, the lengths of the approximately 16K beads range from 30mm to 48mm. This is a great opportunity to add an inexpensive example of the ancient goldsmith’s art to a Pre-Columbian collection, a collection of ancient beads, or a collection of ancient jewelry. A single bead wou ...click for details


Two Pre-columbian Gold Bat God Pendants

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 83388 (stock# TFX117)

Two Pre-columbian Gold Bat God Pendants
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$13,500.00 

Not exactly the same, but probably once hanging from the same necklace, this closely matched pair of 2 3/8” tall figural pendants (TFX117) are attributed to the Veraguas horizon of Panama, dating c.500-1200AD. The figures, representing shamans wearing bat god masks, each hold a large tumi shaped blade in one hand, and what appears to be a sling in the other. Lost wax cast in the high copper, low gold alloy known as tumbaga, the figures were subsequently surface enriched through the depletion gil ...click for details


Twelve Old World Antiquities: Group B

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 769697 (stock# ANTIQ.B)

Twelve Old World Antiquities: Group B
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Each of the twelve artifacts from Old World cultures in this group (100.57BSHD; 95.35 & 51HD; 96.68 & 998Ihd; 97.291HD; AXH230, 1901, 1907 & 1919; EB.1008; and ROW2) is individually priced as shown on its descriptive photo. The types include Egyptian scarabs, Roman bronze and bone pins, Luristan bronze carnelian and agate intaglio seals, stone, ancient dice, and ceramic. Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Italy, Ostia were most of the countries and sites represented in the group, and Sassania ...click for details


Twelve Pre-columbian Gold Nose Ornaments

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 462776 (stock# PC.GOLD.A)

Twelve Pre-columbian Gold Nose Ornaments
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The 12 Precolumbian gold nose ornaments in this group (93.303C-DHD, 93.305BHD, MAX 59, 62, 66, 71, 72, 74, 77, 78 and 79) are all from the Salinar culture of Peru dating c.400-200BC. Made from hammered sheet gold testing at approximately 18K using calibrated needle and acids from a jeweler’s gold testing kit, the ornaments were formed by stone-cutting them out of the relatively thin alloyed precious metal. The ornaments in this interesting group are similar, but none are identical. Here’s an opp ...click for details


Twelve Copper Artifacts: Heflin, Card Group C

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 581541 (stock# AXH.CARD C)

Twelve Copper Artifacts: Heflin, Card Group C
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Aside for the overall quality and frequent uniqueness of the artifacts and relics from the Dr. Allen Heflin collection, it’s difficult not to to rank its next most important feature as the extreme care practiced by Heflin in documenting the provenance of almost every one of his approximately 10,000 treasured items. Not all of them were large, or impressive, or complete, or of museum quality, and many were simply the fragments and parts from ritually broken offerings to ancient gods, or pieces re ...click for details


Large Gold Eagle Pendant With Bell Eyes

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 83191 (stock# H4985)

Large Gold Eagle Pendant With Bell Eyes
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$15,000.00 

Immense might be a good word to describe this large Precolumbian bold eagle pendant (H4985). Attributed to the Veraguas horizon of Panama, c.500-1200AD, the bird represents the powerful harpy eagle, once a prevalent and revered bird in Central and South America. Weighing 154 grams (6 ounces!) and measuring 6 3/8” from wing tip to wing tip, the bird tests out at about 14K gold using a jeweler’s streak plate and calibrated acids. Surface enriched above 14K in ancient days through the depletion gil ...click for details


Precolumbian Gold Fishhooks Sold Individually

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 678996 (stock# PBF.207)

Precolumbian Gold Fishhooks Sold Individually
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This group of 18 Pre-Columbian gold fishhooks (PBF207) is from the Cauca area of Colombia. Dating c.1000-1500AD, each hook is priced individually (although they can be purchased as a group for $1700 until the first one has sold). The millimeter scale on the left side of each photo will give a close estimate of size. Condition of the hooks ranges from good to excellent. One of these would make a unique gift for the avid fisherman, fishing item collectior, Pre-Columbian gold collector, or someone ...click for details

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