Ancient Near East, Luristan, ca. 1200 to 800 BC. An elaborate bronze cloak pin, cast via the lost wax (cire perdue) process with a Zoomorphic beast terminal.

Used to fasten clothes, in this case due to the unusually heavy fabric and decoration, likely leather for presentation use - perhaps for a very thick cape or leather armor.

Size: 11,2 cm.

Condition: Superb! Wonderful dark-green patina.

Ex German Collection from Hessen, aquired before 1970.

Interesting and rarely seen example of the Quatrefoil stone stamp seal group, Eastern Anatolia, Halaf period, c. 6th.-5th.- mill. BC.

An early but still quite elaborate small stamp seal, carved with a small cross inside the larger.

Size: 13 mm. x 13 mm., 6 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice VF, intact with patina...

Very attractive rectangular stamp seal with elaborate rilled handle, Post-Hittite states of West-Mesopotamia, and East Anatolia, later 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal carved with a winged animal.

Size: 19 mm. wide and 17 mm. thick, 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine, intact and with fine patina and much deposits. This seal has potential when manually cleaned for dirt...

A choice larger stone stamp seal of the Tabloid type, North-West Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with three strange symbols in deep relief.

Size: 28 mm. long and 22 mm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, intact with fine even wear and patina.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995...

Interesting stamp seal in a greenish black stone, Anatolia, Neo Hittite states of the late 2nd.-early 1st. millenium BC.

The seal with high pierced handle and oval base, engraved with what appears to be scriptsigns, perhaps Luwian, we're not experts in these.

Size: 22 mm tall and quite massive...

Interesting very tall cone-shaped seal, West-Mesopotamian, probably Halaf-Ubaid, c. 6th.-5th. mill. BC.

The seal is engraved with a beautiful symethric and sharp grit-pattern in a redish brown sandstone.

Size: 35 mm. tall and 12 mm...

A superb condition beige hardstone stamp seal, Cilicia / Levante, c. 1200-800 BC.

The seal expertly carved and polished into it's present perfect pyramidal shape and carved in the base with a bird. Beautiful stone used.

Size: 16 mm tall and 13 mm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2007...

Interesting stone stamp seal found in Harran, easternmost Turkey, prior to 1991. Harran was founded as a real city at some point between the 25th and 20th centuries BC, possibly as a merchant colony by Sumerian traders from Ur. Over the course of its early history, Harran rapidly grew into a major Mesopotamian cultural, commercial and religious center.

This seal is engraved with distinctive spoked wheel in the base, so we can date as 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC...

A very rare stamp seal carved in black stone, Mesopotamia, Early Halaf period, c. 7th.-6th. mill. BC.

A rare elongated irregular form of stamp seal not quite rectangular, possibly in family with the earliest foot-shaped seals, that we know from Mesopotamia. Arched handle, pierced for supension. A Attractive early seal in a substantial size.

Size: 31-32 mm. long.

Condition: Good Very fine, slight wear from use but intact with redish deposits.

Interesting and beautiful seal made in a very hard high quality shiny mottled green-blue stone...

A beautiful stone stamp seal, carved in black serpentine with a high handle, East Anatolia/West Mesopotamia, Neo-Hittite States, late 2nd. mill. BC - early 1st. millenium BC.

Triangular seal plate, engraved with a 4-legged and winged animal, finely made knob handle with piercing!

Diameter: 22 x 23 mm.

Condition: Nice very fine, some smooth wear but intact with fine patina.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive an...

Highly interesting stone seal carved in an extremely hard jade-like stone (probably nephrite), Anatolia, found at Mersin, c. 2nd.-1st. millenium BC.

Archais symethric grit pattern in the base, the seal itself of a monolithic shape that could look like an animal head. This is dated by Oberländer to the Pre-Historic period, but we believe it to be a later seal, due to the shape of the seal and the very hard stone used.

Size: 20 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine...

A finely carved black stone seal with a scarce oval high dome shape, probably an animal form, Anatolia or Syria, c. late 4th.-early 3rd. millenium BC.

Carved with an interesting pattern with three drilled round pellets in a grit. Aquired by the collector in 2003.

Size: 27 mm. long and 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Comes with hard clay impression.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and impo...

An attractive pottery bowl with old repair from 1960s collection, Abbasid (?), 8th.-9th. century AD.

The bowl decorated with stylized caligraphy on a beige ground.

Size: 19 cm. wide and 7,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, typical visible repair of the old Islamic Collections!

Provenance: Important Danish-French Private collection, (aquired 1970- c. 2007) of Islamic pottery ware from the 9th.-12th. century. Comes with COA.

A seal that can be dated to mature stoneage, Mesopotamian, Pre-Halaf-early Halaf period, c. 6th. millenium BC.

Interesting early seal, rectangular with a fine grit-pattern in the base and a pierced handle or loop.

Size: 32 mm. long and 18 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice Very fine, tiny losses, an attractive specimen of the first seals manifactured in history.

Comes with the original collection Id-card and imprint.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1...

A choice & rare islamic pottery bowl dating to 10th-12th century AD.

The bowl has a greenish white glace with some wear due to age.

The bottom of the interior is decorated with a calligraphic symbol.

Size: 110x36 mm.

A high quality intaglio, large for type and carved in an even coloured transperant carnelian stone, probably MUGHAL/SAFAVID, 16th.-17th. century AD.

Rather complicated oval cartouche, carved with artful caligraphic arabic within a double border.

Size: c. 21 mm. long and almost 6 mm. thick.

Condition: Extremely fine, completely intact with inky deposits.

Ex. L.P. Niederrhein, aquired before 1980.

Interesting stamp seal in stone with 4 stamps, Mesopotamian, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

A scarce stamp seal with a warrior with sword at one side and a horse in drill style at the other side, West-Mesopotamian, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC

Size: c. 17 mm. x 18 mm.

Condition: Nice VF, intact.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and importa...