An attractive bronze figure of a Rooster on top of a seal ring, 10th.-12th. century AD.
Very attractive with fine redish and green patina.
Size: 7,1 cm. tall.
Ex. Collection of a Goldsmith in the Rhineland, ca. 1960s.
Another interesting larger stamp in fine calchedony, quaranteed ancient.
Size: 22 mm. tall and 18 mm. wide.
Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
Interesting early 16th. century renaissance / Gothic iron key with cut out sluts for a money cheast, c. 1500 AD.
The key with enforced bit with slots, decorated hollow stem with a thick collar and an oval gothic bow.
Size: 110 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine with interesting cuphrite surfaces from coppering.
Ex. Important old Danish collection of keys.
A nice bronze spectacle brooch or hanger, central European, bronzeage 1400-1100 BC.
Nice specimen with rough green patina and some encrustation.
Size: c. 87 mm. long.
Ex. Private collection.
A scarce, seldomly offered, hemispheric stamp seal, probably Luristan or Susa area, pre-historic period, 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
The seal of an excellent style and nice carved in a serpentine black stone with a star radiating from a circular borders and a central dot.
Size: c. 20 mm...
This is an exceptional bronze dagger or lance point from ancient Syria, possibly the Luristan culture. It measures 199mm and weighs 68 grams. It has a small tang, gently sloping blade edge, and thick midrib. It has a nice malachite patina and shows no signs of damage or repair.
A fine condition square stamp seal in black stone, carved with a elaborate cross design, the seal a flat square, Ancient Near East, probably Luristan, 4th. mill. BC.
Szie: 20 mm. x 20 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine, hard uncleaned earthern deposits.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
A fine silver ancient Islamic belt buckle from the earliest fase in the Islamic domination of the world, 7th.-9th. century AD.
A beautiful and perfectly intact belt buckle completely covered in black patina and in solid silver. Fine ornamentation.
Size: ca. 6 cm. long.
Condition: Superb! A partidularly fine specimen with completely black patina.
Ex. Ib Olsen Collection
Unusual 19th century Persian brass betel box with hinged cover and chiseled designs: the top with equestrian lion hunt, the bottom with a scene of a person with long scimitar slaying a man with several figures and a dog watching, the sides with friezes of various animals: lions, dogs and birds. The scenes must be a reference to some literary story...
A very large bronze seal with a loop on the back and elaborate cross designs, Bactria, 3rd. millenium BC.
Very impressive round seal with a solid cross in the center and a circle around in the openwork style...
A larger early square stamp seal in brown Serpentine, Mesopotamia, Early 3rd. millenium BC.
An attractive seal drilled to be mounted to a string and engraved with astylized figure.
Size: 27 mm. x 24 mm.
Provenance: Part of the inventory of the Coin and antiquities dealer Karl kress, Munich, 1950s.-1960s.
An interesting collection of 22 metal and stone antiquities dating from c. 1st mill BC to Byzantine / Medieval period.
Lot consist of 5 spindlewhorls - 4 with decorations - three in lead and two in ceramic. 15 tokens and weights in bronze and lead and finally two bronze dices.
Sizes up to 23-25 mm.
Ex. Hafnia Coins stock, bought in Denmark in the late 1990s.
A finely patinated bronze intaglio with the depiction of a winged lion or beast, Mesopotamia, probably Achaemenid, c. 1st. mill. BC.
Fine style and attractive.
Size: 17 x 16 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine.
Comes with imprint and COA.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
A scarce thinbutted Danish Neolithic silex axe, mid-late 4th mill. BC.
The axe has a rarely seen feature with a carved ring in the middle of the head.
Most thinbladed axes doesn't have this kind of fitting, so this specimen must have been fastened to the shaft in a different way than usual. Maybe used as an adze.
Size is 17 cm - 6,7 inches.
Condition: Choice axe, w. smaller chips. Resharpened in antiquity. Beautiful calky, white patina.
Ex...
A nice intact carved pendant in green-brown stone, with the stone aiming to imitate rolled papyrus.
The scroll is widest at the top, where there is a neck below the for suspension. The base tapers into a softened point.
Size: c. 29 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine.
Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973)...
A fine large brown stone stamp seal with high relief, Ancient Near East, probably Mesopotamia, Uruk period, 4th. millenium BC.
High relief carving of stylized animal and other symbols.
Size: 30 mm. in diameter and 14 mm...
Ancient Egyptian carved amulet in dark green stone with finely polished details, Late Period, 26th-30th Dynasty, 664-332 BC
Size: c. 16 mm. wide and 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Good VF, intact with patination.
Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973). He was a famous German Art director and head of the Berlin National Gallery as well as other higher positions. Educated as Art Historian. Comes with COA.
A highly interesting and beautiful Redstone (Jasper?) Scaraboid, Levantine / Holyland, 1st. millenium BC.
This seal predates the Greco-Persian period of Scaraboids and was made during the Neo-Assyrian period, ca. 10th.-8th. century BC.
The seal is engraved with a complicated pattern, like multible Swaztikas or perhaps a scetched bird (?). Very sharp and attractive engraving
Size: 16 mm.
Ex R.T. Private collection, since 1958 in Münich, Germany.