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All Items : Antiques : Instruments and Implements : Pre 1900 item #1490497
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$4,500.00
A luxery set of Target pistols by Reilly, Holburn Bars, London, probably c. 1830 or so.

A couple of massive pistols in the high quality heavy craftmanship incl. octagonal damascus barrels, . lovely flamed stock with precise decor grib, the barrels with the makers name in a long line. The metal parts also nicely engraved with floral decoration.

Length: c...
All Items : Antiques : Instruments and Implements : Pre AD 1000 item #1490486
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$5,500.00
A rare and early pair of English silver mounted flintlock holster pistols, London, late 17th.-eary 18th. cent.

The pistols with walnut stock and finely engraved and chiselled silver. With spurred butt caps with chiselled grotesque masks. Silver mounted and bone tipped ramrods etc.

Size: Each c. 40 cm. long.

Condition: Nice very fine, completely intact, incl...
All Items : Antiques : Instruments and Implements : Pre 1800 item #1490485
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$5,500.00
Pair of English silver mounted flintlock holster pistols by Wilson, an early pair made rather shortly after 1730.

The pistols with walnut stock and finely engraved and chiselled silver. With spurred butt caps with chiselled grotesque masks. Wilson engraved on the locks and with London gun marks on the smooth barrels and silver marks as well. Silver mounted and tipped ramrods.

Size: each c. 36 cm. long.

Condition: Good very fine, completely intact, incl...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1910 item #1490398
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$1,850.00
A very high quality early wooden figure, Ivory Coast, Baulé, 19th.-early 20th. century.

The figure appears facing the front, symmetrical with its arms resting on its stomach, which was a sign of peace for the Baulé people. He is completely nude.

Wonderful facial expression even for the elaborate type, with its half-closed eyes, which resembles coffee grains, that give the face a serene expression...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1920 item #1490372
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An important high quality early wooden Maternity figure, Ivory Coast, Baulé, provenanced and from the 19th. century or very early 20th. cent.

The figure appears facing the front, symmetrical with her arms resting on her pregnant stomach, which was a sign of peace for the Baulé people.

An artful carving in a hard dark solid wood...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1490370
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$1,650.00
A rare painted early wooden figure, Ivory Coast, Baulé, from the famous Danish Artist and Sculptor, Robert Jacobsen private collection and from the 19th.- or very early 20th. century

The figure appears facing the front, symmetrical with her arms resting on her stomach, which was a sign of peace for the Baulé people. She is dressed in a loincloth painted in black, red and white.

An artful carving in a hard dark solid wood...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1900 item #1490369
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$1,850.00
An important high quality early wooden figure, Ivory Coast, Baulé, provenanced and from the 19th. century

The sculpture representing a seated woman, hands on her knees, seated on a chair, carved with incredible realism and details in the nude. Wood with fading colours and much brown-black patina. The sculpture presents the traditional baule keloids scars and a braided hairstyle, finely chiseled...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490345
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$375.00
A very attractive Sassanian stamp seal carved with an animal with it's turned back, a trident symbol and a fine long line of Pahlevi script above.

Finely inscribed seal in a mottled hard stone.

Size: c. 15 mm. wide and 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Ex. German private collection, Ex. Gerard Hirsch Nachfolger Auctionhouse. Comes with our COA and hard imprint.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490344
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A very attractive saraboid seal, carved on the upper side with three section of grit-patterns, and on the seal base with a frontal stylized Rams head emblem, Anatolia, probably costal region, 2nd. millenium BC.

As a very precious material in antiquity, Lapis seals were expensive and thus scarcely seen today. This particular stone is in a very deep good color.

Size: c...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490343
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$895.00
One of the largest tablet or brick seals, we've ever offered. Bifacial tablet seals can normally be dated to around the 3rd. millenium BC. This is so delicately carved that it could be made somewhat later, weøre not certain.

The black serpentine seal depicts a large Bee filling the whole of the seal, and on the other side Scorpion. Particularly the Bee is masterfully engraved so that even tiny details and textures of the bee can be seen. Absolutely stunning.

Size: 50 mm. ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490341
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$395.00
A very beautifully carved and polished stamp seal, Syro-Levantine, c. 1st. millenium BC.

A very elaborately carved seal with a tall handle, carved in a cream stone, very glossy! The seal is carved with a depiction of a large bird attacking a smaller animal, perhaps a sheep. Highly unusual.

Size: 20 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely Fine, uncleaned red dessert sand deposits in the devices.

Ex. Old Bavarian private collection, aquired at Gerard Hirsch Nach...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490340
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$950.00
A high quality and massive Mesopotamian cylinder seal carved in dark serpentine stone, North-West Mesopotamia, c. 18th.-16th. century BC.

The seal is profusely engraved with a complex depiction of deities and animals. A central godess is sort of flying with her hands touching two creatures above. A worshipper in front with hands raised. Aray of animals and smaller figures including a Centaur below.

Size: 44-45 mm. tall. and 15 mm. wide.

Condition: Near Extremely...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Byzantine : Pre AD 1000 item #1490339
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$225.00
A nice wearable solid silver ring with monogram, Byzantine Empire, c. 700-900 AD.

Ring size: c. 19 mm. and round, weighing 5,68 grams. Solid silver.

Ex. German private collection since 1990. Comes with our COA and hard imprint.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pre AD 1000 item #1490338
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$575.00
Elaborate Roman silver ring, 1st.-3rd. cent. AD.

The ring is moulded with a large female bust on the top. She is either a deity or a high-born lady, with a tall draped hairdress and diadem.

Size: about 25 mm. wide. 9.60 grams. The ring-size is c. 19 mm.

Condition: Nice Very fine and intact. stable and Wearable. The surface with corrosion and brown deposits.

Ex. German private collection since 1990s, aquired at Gerard Hirsch Nachfolger Auctionhouse....
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pre AD 1000 item #1490337
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$475.00
Another substantial Roman silver seal ring with a red carnelian intaglio, 1st.-3rd. cent AD

The ring a typical compressed Roman design and the carnelian stone engraved with a depiction of the Dioskouroi.

Size: c. 24 mm. wide and weighing 8.1 grams. The ring-size is c. 19 mm. x 16 mm., so it fits the typical ring-finger of a smaller male or a female hand.

Condition: Very fine, intact, but the stone was reset and there's chips to the silver-setting. Stable and we...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pre AD 1000 item #1490336
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$625.00
An attractive large Roman seal or signet ring, engraved intaglo in the silver of an amphora. The ring isself a typical male upper class silver ring, heavy and with high shoulders decorated with V-sections. The amphora is engraved into a seal on a stepped rectangular podium

Size: c. 27 mm tall and weighing 12,11 grams. The ring-size is c. 20 mm. by 20 mm., so average to larger male ring-finger size.

Condition: Extremely fine, superb brownish tone to the silver, no corrosio...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pre AD 1000 item #1490335
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$895.00
Interesting and very attractive large Roman seal or signet ring, with a green Jasper intaglio, depicting a Galley / trireme. The ring isself a typical male uppeclass silver ring, very heavy and with the high shoulders decorated with scroll.

The Jasper stone very nicely engraved with details of the man at the rudder. This ring would probably have belonged to a Naval commandor (triarch) or a Centurion in the fleet.

Size: 3 cm. wide and weighing 15 grams. The ring-size is c. ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1490320
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$95.00
A larger and very refined La Tolita head. He wears a giant nosering and a cap, in hard burnt stoneware.

Size: 5 cm. tall and 5 cm. wide. Unmounted.

Condition: Choice.

Ex Old German Private Collection.