This group of twelve photographs illustrates individually priced Pre-Columbian artifacts (AXH Nos. 234R3N2, 1410R5N4, 1413R3N1, 1418R4N2, 1426R5N3, 1487R1N4, 1490R5N2, 1496R7N5, 1540, 2647P, 2590 and 2736), all from the estate of the late Dr. Allen Heflin and all Aztec in age, dating c.1300AD-1500AD. The various types shown in this group are: figurines, pendant, needles, adorno, whorl, ear spool, duck’s head, ear plug, bird’s head, gouge, etc. Materials include bone, clay and obsidian...
This is the last group of twelve (96.235HD, 96.266HD, 96.663HD, 96.876HD, 96.976HD, 96.979HD, JAM12, JAM22, JAM38, JAM40, JAM42 and JAM48) from the large Phillip Mitry collection of ancient Egyptian scarabs and artifacts. Dating from the 12th to the 30th Dynasties, this selection includes scarabs, ring faces easily mounted in contemporary rings, button scarabs, a plaque, along with one scarab and one cowroid that still have their original gold bezels attached...
Well...almost nude! Wearing coiled headband, ear decorations and a neck collar, the impressive, 11” tall young female (RFM36) wears nothing else but a pout. The solid, hand modeled ceramic image is attributed to the Colima horizon of West Mexico dating c.300-100BC and comes from the collection of one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Institute of Pre-Columbian Studies...
This group of twelve Pre-Columbian ‘blackware’ pottery pieces (LLL 406, 425, 437, 477, 497, 587, 605, 626, 628, 688, 718 and 1014) is from the estate of the late Lynn Langdon. Found and collected in the mid-20th century, Lynn’s main area of interest was in the western states and cultures of Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit...
This 6” x 3” stamped envelope (FP1136) is addressed to “Mrs. John S. Titcomb, Platte Canon, Jefferson Co., Colorado”. The two-cent US stamp was hand cancelled on August 15, 1880 with the Fort Fetterman, Wyo. Ter. postal mark, only 14 years after the ill-fated Fetterman Massacre occurred farther north on the Bozeman Trail and on the east side foothills of the Big Horn Mountains. Fetterman, with some 80 troops and civilians from Ft...
The Clyde Pharr consignment is made up of mostly ancient Greek and Roman coins, a lesser number of Byzantine coins, a few groups of antiquities, and a handful of middle age and historic coins. The collection is offered for rapid review on nine pages using our browser efficient and popular ‘Group of Twelve’ format where each of the twelve items on one page is priced individually on its own descriptive photo. Some of the coins are attributed, some are not...
This approximately 12 ½” x 14” Confederate States of America $500 bond (FP1371) is dated March 2nd, 1863. Noted as an 8% Coupon Bond, it has the bust of C. G. Memminger in the upper center, and a cotton plant in the lower center. Four coupons remain attached to the bottom of the bond...
This 7 ¼” finely marked black-on-orange Pre-Columbian vessel (JDR.2) is attributed to the Lambayeque horizon of the north coast of Peru. Dating c.800-1300AD, the handled jar is 4 ¼” in diameter and has a 3” tall spout, below which clinging to the side of the jar is a crouched monkey. In overall good condition (I’d rank it a 7), it has been partially restored and the monkey replaced and rebuilt where damaged...
The exact species type of this realistically lost wax cast lizard pendant (TF98.110) is unknown, but probably one that can be fairly easily identified if not extinct. Measuring 5 1/8” in length and attributed to the Veraguas horizon of Panama, c.500-1200AD, this rather large zoomorphic form was made from the high copper, low gold alloy known as tumbaga...
The tenth page of relics from the MAB collection consists of eleven assorted Old World and SE Asian items (MAB 9A-C, 56, 70, 73, 76, 88 and 118 thru 120). Shown are Roman buckles, bronze jewelry chain lengths, nails, a lead weight with a cross, a pin and other. Also included are three old SE Asian bronze 'bar money' pieces. Note that many more MAB items remain to be listed but it will take a few months to get them all on...
The twelve assorted silver and bronze ancient Greek coins in this group (96.114ZHD, 96.114AAHD, 99.4HD, 99.24HD, 100.23AHD, 100.29HD, 100.30AHD, 100.184HHD, ROW15C, ROW19, ROW20C, and ROW20D) date from 430BC to the 2nd Century AD. Included are coins either commemorating or from the following reigns or areas: Achaean League, Alexander III, Antialkidas, Antiochus III, Menander, Philiasia/Phlius, Seleucus, Sicyon, Thebes/Boeotia, and Thespiai/Boeotia. The coins have all undergone more or less circu...
This group of twelve individually priced prehistoric Indian pots (JHL102, 112, 113, 114, 119, 120, 123, 126, 139, 144, 151 and 161) are all from the estate of the late Gene Lang of Denver. Believed to be from the Williams Ranch collection, south of Quemado, New Mexico, Lang purchased the pots to restore them but was not able to complete the job. Most have been simply glued together with little restoration, and are usually missing a few shards. Each photo is noted first with the Inventory Number ...