This group of twelve photographs illustrates individually priced Pre-Columbian artifacts (AXH Nos. 1407R5N2, 1410R6N2, 1417R4N2, 1418R1N2, 1449R3N3, 1487R5N1, 1490R7N1, 2344, 2401, 2449, 2647O & R), all from the estate of the late Dr. Allen Heflin. All Post-Classic Aztec pieces in this group, dating c.1300AD-1500AD, the various types represented are: bird’s head, warrior’s head, needle, vulture’s head, bead, ring, ear spools, adorno, fetish, etc. Materials include bone and clay...
Collector Walter Glowacki purchased this lot of 23 Columbian River points (WG101) at an Indian show in Denver in 1981. Measuring from ½” to a little over 1” in length, the stone types include black obsidian, mahogany obsidian, translucent chalcedony, jasper, agate, and opaque chalcedony of various other colors. Condition varies from overall good (minor nicks and dings on 9 points) to excellent (on the balance). The point types all fall in the Desert Tradition category, dating c.1600-400BP...
This grouping of twelve (RDM 20, 21, 25-27, 35, 68, 88, 105, 106, 110 and 111) illustrates the last of the keros or drinking cups in the Barney Mallonee collection. As previously noted, this large collection came out of South America near the end of WWI, and has passed on from generation to generation in the Mallonee family...
‘Dr. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters, Free From Alcohol’ (yech!)…one cannot imagine that this was a particularly popular drink in its day! J. Walker was the proprietor for this concoction, and his ‘patent medicine’ was sold through R. H. McDonald & Co., Druggists & General Agents with locations in San Francisco and New York. The cord-bound, 38-page, 5 ½” x 8” pamphlet (3.00HJ) was a bible for the Temperance Cause...
This assortment of Pre-Columbian items from the collection of Lorenzo Fritz, research anthropologist and former Southwestern Primitive Arts dealer (LFG 458, 1000, 1002-1004, 1006, 1008, 1013, 1019, 1020 and 1021), consists of 6 small, hand modeled clay figurines from West Mexico and one from Peru, a fine serpentine bowl with a use-polished pestle from the mystical Tiahuanaco, a Tiahuanacan basket in very good condition, and two Inca period textiles from Peru, one a small wool bag and the other a...
This phenomenal depiction of the shaman undergoing empowerment is almost pure gold! Worn in Precolumbian Panama by a member of the Veraguas group, the 3 7/8” long pendant (100.80HD) was authenticated and tested as 23K gold by the Orenda laboratory in Santa Fe, New Mexico...
This page of twelve (MAB.164A & D; 165B, E, H, K & N; 166B, D, E & I; and 183) from the MAB collection offers ancient jewelry from the Persian Empire, France, Spain, Jerusalem and England, plus a rare Pre-Columbian tumbaga priest pendant (unfortunately a curio only and not wearable). Each photo in this group shows first our inventory number in brackets followed by a brief description, and then a grade estimate (1-10)...
This is page 13 from the MAB relic collection. Shown are 12 weapon-related Roman individual items and artifact lots (MAB 16, 17, 60, 61, 62A-E, 63-65. 82, 84, 115 and 116). Included are arrow points, a mace head, sling weights and plumbatas. Note that there are still more MAB items remain to be listed but it will take a few months to get them all on. If wanted, viewers can see any relics added since their last visit by simply typing MAB into the search link appearing in our catalog...
Found in the deep shaft tomb area of West Mexico in the mid-20th century by the late Lynn Langdon, this 1 3/8” tall semi-polished greenstone head pendant (LLL755A) is broadly assigned to the Shaft Tomb period, c.200BC-300AD. In excellent condition and ready to wear, it comes with a small display card, a biographical sketch about Langeon, a map of Mexico on which is highlighted the shaft tomb area, and our certificate guaranteeing authenticity...
The interesting and diverse items in this group of twelve individually priced prehistoric stone tools (TEH 132, 134, 138, 139, 142, 145-149, 152 and 156) are all from the estate of the late Chester Howard, early Colorado collector and founder of the Colorado Mineral Society. The group includes one or more of each of the following types: celt, mano, hammer, stone pigment vessel, axe and maul. Rock types include: greenstone, vesicular basalt, hollow concretion, basalt and hematite...
This last page of the newly added groups of twelve (MAB.O thru MAB.U) from the MAB collection holds fine examples of Sassanid donut seals from ancient Persia, a cuneiform tablet from the eastern Mediterranean, and two Pre-Columbian molds and a roller seal (MAB.153; 160A-G; 181; 184 and 185)...
Each of the photographs in this group illustrates and prices a different, mid to later 20th century Native American silver buckle (BB139,140,143,145 and 149)...