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Ancient Egyptian Blue Faience Amulet Lion-Goddess Sekhmet 1200-300 BC Authentic ancient Egyptian ca. 1200-300 B.C blue glaze faience amulet of Sekhmet, the lion-goddess, standing in a long gown with a necklace draping down her chest, hands at her side. She wears on her head the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.

She was both a fierce lioness and the goddess of medicine connected with the soothing of illness and warding off trouble in general.

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An authentic ancient Chinese huge bronze Ge (dagger-axe) halberd blade that dates to the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 B.C.), which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty period.

MEASUREMENTS: Overall length: 33 cm (12.99 inches), Height: 14.5 cm (5.71 inches). CONDITION: Showing the age and usage, thick dark green patina with earthen deposits, tang broken, blade chipped. All of this is an aspect of an ancient bronze combat weapon, considering its age to be o...

Superb Quality antique 17th-18th century monumental Turkish Ottoman Islamic copper tray (Sini) of rounded form with upturned rim, engraved with a central roundel containing a six-pointed star- Seal of Solomon – Khātim Sulaymāni خاتم_سليمان surrounded by further concentric bands containing entwined split-arabesques, with alternating design of two-handed lidded jars and stylized domed buildings flanked by cypress trees.

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1. A similar tray is published in the Sot...

A Semi-antique, heavy silver inlaid, copper “Cairoware” presentation, commemorative plate, commemorating The Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps (RCAPC) service in Egypt, during the Suez Crisis.

The center inlaid in heavy silver with the badge of the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps is officially described as follows:

Within the Garter and motto "HONI. SOUT. QUI. MAL. Y. PENSE", a beaver resting on a log; below the garter and supported by a spray of six maple leaves, a scroll inscrib...

Antique French military sword "Eppe" 1872 Pattern for the officers of the Third Republic. Solid brass regulation hilt with D" shaped knucklebow, double clamshell hand guard, and thickened edge adorned at the front with wreath formed of oak and laurel leaves with a ribbon. Folding back guard, folded, and released by pressing a sprung steel ball.

The grip is made of wood and bound with twisted copper wire. It has brass ferrules and a bulbous pommel with a turned finial.

Sturdy double edg...

A pair of ornate, antique, 19th century, African Islamic, Hausa warrior brass horse stirrups, made in Turkish Ottoman manner. Each with very high, strongly curved treads/footplates pierced in the center with rosette and surmounted by an arched crossbar with a hexagonal suspension loop. Sides are engraved with a complex geometric motif. One of the stirrups cast with the funnel to rest upon, the bottom of the lancer's lance a spear-shaped pointed shoe of the staff. DIMENSIONS: Approximately: H...

This painting is signed but cannot be deciphered. The painting portrays the beautiful scenery of the Old Town in Warsaw (Stare Miasto)
CONDITION: In good condition, no restorations.
MEASUEMENTS: 19 1/2 inches tall and 18 1/4 inches wide with the frame.

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Antique Chinese 17th century Qing Dynasty Kangxi period. Large, Famille Verte porcelain charger signed with artemisia mark. Fine hand-painted and enameled with landscape scene of a mountainous river with trees, houses, a viewing pagoda, and various figures on a bridge and shore, including a fisherman seated in a boat. All surrounded by a band of twelve rectangular panels containing flower heads. The rim is adorned with a band of latticework.

The base with the unglazed channel foot rim enclo...

Antique 18th-19th-century all-steel Spanish dagger stiletto with the hilt in the form of Islamic, Moorish, Al-Andalus, Nasrid period, sword Jineta.

Dagger consists of a rounded steel hilt with downturned solid steel-shaped quillons in typical Moorish Al-Andalus Nasrid style and a hand-forged double-edged steel blade. With its plane steel scabbard with a shaped shoe.

In the famous Al-Faisal Museum for Arab-Islamic Art, in the Collection of Islamic Art, including arms and armor, in a specia...

A superb quality antique 19th century Spanish hunting plug bayonet with sturdy, tapering, double-edged blade of a waving (flamboyant) form, with a finely engraved band of foliage on each side.

A turned hardwood grip of a tapering circular section surmounted by a brass pommel, brass ferrule below turned swelling handle at the base and a horizontal brass crossguard with elaborate quillons. This plug bayonet was designed and used for hunting wild boars and bears.

CONDITION: In good co...

This is a small antique sword from 18th-century England. It has a thrusting tapering blade that is hollow and triangular in section. The hilt is made of bright steel and is set with multi-faceted studs that resemble rose-cut diamonds. The hilt comprises an oval shell guard, a recurved cross guard, an urn-shaped pommel with a button, and a faceted swelling grip.

The urn-shaped pommel and the crossguard finial affix with the loops for suspension of the knuckle chain.

The decoration on thi...

Ancient Roman, circa. 1st - 3rd century A.D. Bronze bust of Jupiter. Depicted from the shoulders up, with well-defined facial details hair, eyes, thick beard and muscular neck and shoulders. Likely was part of a handle from a Roman vessel.

HEIGHT: 42 mm (1 5/8 inches).

CONDITION: Signs of usage and wear with nice olive-green glossy patina.

PROVENANCE: Ex. Old Canadian collection.

An antique Georgian Caucasian solid silver stem wine cup (Tazza) assayed at the Tiflis (now Tbilisi) Russian Imperial mint and stamped in the Cyrillic alphabet ТМД (Тифлисский монетный двор). This silver hallmark was used from 1804 to 1832.

A shallow bowl of solid silver hand hammered and chased in Bas-relief with a large flower-head, each petal framing various animals including tiger, wild boar, eagle, and hawk. The bowl rests on a flaring trumpet foot stamped wit...

A very good quality,antique late 18th - early 19th century, North African – Maghreb, Algeria – Morocco Islamic Arab gun powder flask with wooden, bag-shaped, plano -convex body, encased entirely in leather with untouched, lightly oxidized, brown-colored surfaces, with two iron rings for suspension, and attached leather straps, fitted with a nicely carved bone pouring-spout and bone nozzle including its original wood plug stopper.

CONDITION: In very good untouched condition, s...

An important Germanic Visigothic belt buckle from the Migration Period, 6th century AD, Kingdom of the Visigoth, Iberian Peninsula.

The buckle plate is rectangular and has been made using the Cloisonne technique.

The front surface of the buckle is adorned with lozenge-shaped natural lapis lazuli stone set in a solid gold setting. It is surrounded by green and cobalt blue glass and copper alloy straps.

The rectangular plate has been connected to a thick oval loop by two hinge...

An important antique Royal Egyptian solid silver ewer of His Majesty King Fuad I of Egypt. It is engraved in the center with the Royal Crown of Egypt within a circular cartouche.

Many personal luxury items that belonged to the kings of Egypt, including King Fuad I and King Fuad II, were marked with the Royal Crown of Egypt. This symbol was exclusively reserved for the king's possessions and forbidden to use by anyone other than the king.

Several personal items that bear the crown of Eg...

Superb quality antique medieval 9th - 10th century A.D. Viking warrior spearhead. This beautifully and extremely well hand forged steel spearhead has a sturdy, tapered, diamond cross-section blade chiseled on both sides with two narrow fullers.

The blade has a slightly vi...

Antique 17th-18th century huge hand hammered Ottoman Armenian Tinned Copper deep charger, platter, bowl, plate. The object has a broad rim engraved with four cartouches enclosing two lobed medallions engraved with a floral pattern, one with stylized bird and another with an inscription in Eski Osmanlı Türkçesi (Old Ottoman Turkish) in Arabic alphabet “Mustafa”, has some other illegible writing in Arabic alphabet. All medallions surrounded by bands of interlocked palmettes including a smal...