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A fine Grecco -Persian bronze spearhead, later 1st mill BC.

The blade with slim shoulders and central midrib. The sharp edges of the blade slope into a long, folded conical socket with an opening at the back and a straight.

Size: 34,5 cm - socket is about 18 cm.

Condition: Choice - cleaned somewhat hard, but still with nice red and green patina, as shown on photos.

Ex Private Collection.

A substantial upperpart of a casket or chest lock sculptured in bronze as a leaping / attacking Lion with open jaws, Roman, 1st.-3rd. cent. AD.

Very nice antiquity with fine details and a lovely green and red patina.

Size: 6,7 cm. long weighing a solid 81 grams.

Ex. Old German Private Collection, before 1970.

Interesting large glass amulet tessera, drilled to use as pendant, black glass, dated to the Ptolemaic period, c. 200 BC, but could perhaps malso be early Roman (see id card)

The unusually large and finely preserved piece decorated with a Lion in high relief.

Size: 28 mm. wide and 17 mm. tall.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006, comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer...

Interesting lot of quite scarce glass amulets or tesseras in fine conditions, Early Roman Imperial, Roman Egypt, c. 1st.-2nd. century AD.

The motifs includes Hercules, Mercury and a fine Imperial couple in the style of the time of Nero.

Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable deal...

A massive high quality unguentaria bottle made of greenish glass. Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.

The bottle of impressive height and very solidly constructed, sound glass.

Size: c. 15,4 cm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine, unusually solid and sound green glass vessel with beautiful mild irridescence.

Provenance: Estate of Hartmut Geerken, Germany, aquired 1961-1964!

A massive high quality unguentaria made of greenish glass. Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.

The bottle of impressive height and very solidly constructed, sound glass.

Size: c. 15 cm. tall and 7,7 cm. in diameter of the base.

Condition: Extremely fine, unusually solid and sound green glass vessel with beautiful mild irridescence.

Provenance: Estate of Hartmut Geerken, Germany, aquired 1961-1964!

A lovely coloured Roman glass bottle. Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.

The bottle with slightly tappering corpus and wide mouth.

Size: c. 96 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine, sound glass vessel of an aubergine-red colour with exceptional irridescence.

Provenance: Estate of Hartmut Geerken, Germany, aquired 1961-1964!

A scarce and beautiful Roman glass bottle. Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.

The bottle with cylindrical ribbed corpus and wide mouth.

Size: c. 110 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine, sound green glass vessel with beautiful mild irridescence.

Provenance: Estate of Hartmut Geerken, Germany, aquired 1961-1964!

A substantial and attractive bronze figure of a coiled snake, Roman Imperial, 1st.-3rd. cent.

Size: 5,5 cm. in diameter and c. 4 cm. tall weighing 160 grams.

Ex. Saxony private collection, c. 1970.

A nice small bronze figure of a seated Panther or Lion, Roman Imperial, 1st.-3rd. cent. AD.

The piece probably from furniture perhaps a kind of a lock mecanism for a casket.

Size: 45 mm.

Ex. Saxony collection of c. 1970.

An interesting pair of ancient Greek wheel-made pottery lamps in orange clay, dating to 4th-1st cent AD.

Both lamps with a central, conical tube. The concave rim turned inwards and rounded short nozzles with large wick holes. Old collection tags on both pieces

Size: 5 & 6 cm across at the nozzle.

Condition: Choice and intact lamps with wear for type and age.

Ex. German collection.

Choice grey pottery terracotta oil lamp with profiled ring handle and a discus shaped body, Greek hellenistic, c. 3rd.-1st. century BC.

This lamp was made as an 'imitation' of the metal lamps of the period, but in pottery for the lower classes!

Size: c.10,5 cm. long.

Condition: Good Very fine and intact.

Provenance: Bärbel Kasper collection, Germany since 1950.

Choice grey pottery terracotta oil lamp with profiled ring handle and sharp decoration of rosettes on the sides, Greek hellenistic, c. 3rd.-2nd. century BC.

Size: c. 10,7 cm. long.

Condition: Good Very fine and intact.

Provenance: Bärbel Kasper collection, Germany since 1950.

A fine substantial roman silver ring with a fine carnelian intaglio depicting Victoria standing, 2nd - 3rd century AD.

A typical 'compressed' roman ring oval ring setting and slightly convex intaglio. This ring is quite heavy weighing 9.47 grams and made of fine condition solid silver.

Size: Ringsize (inner diameter) c. 18-19 mm. / Weight 9.47 grams.

Ex Münz Zentrum Rheinland - Heinz-W. Müller, Solingen.

Lovely terracotta lamp of the Loeschcke VIII and with a fine depiction of Eros holding the arms of Mars, below on the base is an inscription as a mark of the workshop.

Size: 10,4cm.

Condition: Good Very Fine, completely intact with a little earthern deposits in the devices.

Provenance: Bärbel Kasper collection, Germany since 1950.

Interesting grey pottery lamp decorated with a winged Eros atop of spout, Greek hellenistic, 3rd.-2nd. century BC.

Size: c. 108 mm. long.

Condition: Near Very fine, somewhat uncleaned with chip to the spout and wear from use.

Provenance: Bärbel Kasper collection, Germany since 1950.

Late Corinthian plate with nice polychrome painting, dating to 5th - 4th century BC.

Very attractive dish that was made with two holes in the rim for hanging it.

Size: 16,9 cm.

Condition: Nice VF, one fragment reattached and restored nicely.

Ex. pre-2nd. world war Bavarian collection.

Carved in a fine glossy green stone, rectangular shape and with a low pierced handle on the back. The seal carved with an elephant in a nice early Roman style of the 1st. century BC.

The style of the Elephant is clearly in family with denarii issued from military mints at the time of Julius Caesar.

Size: 20 mm. long, 12 mm. wide and 5 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine, intact with light encrusted dirt in the devices.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (...

A wonderful lot of 8 fibulas, incl. two of silver, Roman to Merovingian period, c. 1st.- 6th. cent. AD.

Roman Imperial, 1st.-4th. century AD: Two cloverleaf fibulae with punched decoration (length 2,5cm), a fibula in openwork technique (length 3,2cm), axe fibula (length 4,7cm), a Pelte fibula (length 2,8cm), a fibula with a semicircular head plate and five roundels (length 6,3cm, Merovingian period, 5th - 6th century AD), a bow fibula with rectangular base plate (length 2,7cm, inta...

Interesting device, possible from a lock or attachment for furniture (?), Roman, 1st.-3rd. cent. AD.

Attractive with nice green patina.

Size: 55 mm. - quite massive for it's size.

Ex. German Private Collection

An early 'Grand Tour' style large Estate stamp seal, European, probably c. 1820-1850.

The seal cast with an heroic bust of a greek god of war, probably Ares or Athena in the classical style. A monogram of two capital letters finely engraved in the seals base.

Size: 12,5 cm. tall and weighing 225 grams.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact and with remnants of original silver and gilt in the details.

Provenance: Estate of the Danish Artist Rolf Gjeds...

An attractive large Phoenician stamp seal of a scaraboid form, dating to c. 800 BC.

The seal carved in a in a nice marble stone and engraved with an interesting image of a god carying a crocodile and a bird or snake in each hand.

Size: 20 mm. long and 16 mm. broad and 11 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, intact with light wear.

This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenan...

Interesting pottery flute in the shape of a bird. Greek dating to c. 600 BC.

The body is very nicely detailed with naturalistic bird features.

Size: 5,5 cm.

An old collection tag on the base: "No. 000693, v. Hassermann-Jordan Deidesheim."

Condition: A nice fragment with the head missing.

Ex. German Private Collection.

An interesting, small collection of ancient pottery items from a range of cultures, incl. Greece and Rome, 600 BC-200 AD.

The collection consist of:

- a rare pottery sieve restored from several large pieces, Roman 1st.-3rd. century AD
- a large shard of pottery decorated with a high relief face of Appollon, Greek hellenistic period (fragmentary)
- A very large pottery sharp, which is a side of a mega-vessel, decorated with early Greek decoration, probably c. 60...

A fine matching pair of pottery Kyathoi with finely preserved decoration, late archaic or early classic period of 550-525 BC.

Very attractive and in near perfect condition! No repair.

Size: H 10cm, ø 13,3cm & H 10,8cm, ø 10,6cm.

Ex. Swiss private collection 2002, aquired ex di Meglio Collection, Cambridgeshire, England; b) ex Clive Sawyer, England.

Nice lot of two wearable finger rings, one typical Roman with wide shoulders, the other probably also Roman and of silver. The bronze ring with intaglio of a Lion.

Ringsize: 17-20 mm.

Condition: Very fine.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp and cylinder seals from the p...

A very nice and very large bronze seal ring in excellent condition, Roman, c. 2nd.-4th. cent. AD.

The ring of the typical ancient D-shape with high shoulders.

Size: The ring is 27-28 mm. wide and the ringsize is c. 21 mm.(max).

Condition: Extremely Fine for this type, lovely metal and brown patina.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable deal...

Lot of three very nice bronze antiquities, incl. a dress pin with knobbed head, probably celtic, 3rd. cent. BC, a finely made large amulet of a Bullae in bronze with a loop, and a small intact amulet with a loop depicting Fortuna, both Roman 1st.-3rd. century

Size: 9 cm. for the dress pin, 5,3 cm. for the Bullae and 25 mm. for Fortuna.

Condition: EF, all intact with fine patinas.

Ex. 'Hafnia Coins & Antiques' inventory from the 1990s.

A very rare and interesting Early Christian / Coptic drinking cup, Egypt, 1st. cent. BC-4th. century AD.

Attractive cup, shaped much like the greek Kylix, low with twin handles. Finely decorated in torquise and black line decor. The motif includes a large cross, a flower, a podium? and arrow symbols.

Size: 14 cm. in diameter incl. handles and 4,8 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice, looks intact, but we think there's a restoration of a crack, very professionally made. ...

A nice and interesting large ceramic seal, square seal plate with small knob handle at the back and depicting animals within a square dotted border.

Size: c. 6 cm. wide.

Condition: Very fine.

Ex. Danish Private Collection.

An exceptional style terracotta head of a bearded man wearing a diadem, probably the head of Vajrapani with features of Heracles, Gandhara, 0-400 AD.

Size: 88 mm. tall., 55 mm. deep and 53 mm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine and intact, earthern deposits, with the face brushed.

Ex. Danish Private Collection

A remarkably fine style terracotta head of a bearded man, probably the head of Vajrapani with features of Heracles, Gandhara, 0-400 AD.

Size: 95 mm. tall., 65 mm. deep and 58 mm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine and intact, earthern deposits.

Ex. Danish Private Collection

An interesting collection of 22 metal and stone antiquities dating from c. 1st mill BC to Byzantine / Medieval period.

Lot consist of 5 spindlewhorls - 4 with decorations - three in lead and two in ceramic. 15 tokens and weights in bronze and lead and finally two bronze dices.

Sizes up to 23-25 mm.

Ex. Hafnia Coins stock, bought in Denmark in the late 1990s.

A nice set of three larger ancient bronzes for clothing. A darkage fibula, Eastern Goths or Saxon, c. 5th-6th. century AD. A northern European clasp for a coat, Viking Period, 8th-10th cent and a later medieval beltstrap.

Sizes: c. 55-70 mm.

Condition: F-VF, missing pins.

Ex. Hafnia Coins stock, bought in Denmark in the late 1990s.

Interesting small bronze pendant seal with a hing at the top, depicting a fine naturalistic Rabbit or Hare, Roman, 1st.-3rd. cent AD.

A rare find of a stamp seal from the roman period.

Size: 18 mm.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civi...

Interesting and unusually large decorated bronze tweezer, likely Roman but could be much older, perhaps late bronzeage European.

The tweezer measure 10,8 cm. in lenght and is solidly constructed and finely decorated with lines. Two tiny rivets in the low area. The design is most likely Roman, but the fine execution and the rivets could point to an earlier manifacture date.

Condition: Nice VF, absolutely lovely red-brown patina, but a c. 30% loss at one side.

Ex....

A very interesting and ultra rare depiction of a caesar or emperor on a Seal ring, Late Roman / Darkage, c. late 4th.-6th. cent. AD.

Enigmatic ring that would have belonged to officials with some power. The style of (pseudo) lettering around a central bust and with his raised arm depicted as well, is typical for the Late Roman depictions from the 4th. century and onwards, in this case in the later gothic style known from the coins as well, so a presumable dating would be c. 5th. centu...

Attractive annd wearable bronze seal ring, Roman Empire, 1st.-3rd. century AD:

With high shoulders, typical for the period, fine high relief image of a bird on the oval bezel.

Ring-size (inner diameter): c. 20 mm.

Condition: VF, some wear and corrosion, lovely olive patina.

This ring comes with the original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection betw...

A beautiful bronze bust of a deity, Roman Empire, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

A bust of a deity, perhaps Silvanus or Pan(?). With headdress and with a strap over the chest from a quiver with arrows.

Size: 44 mm. tall and weighing 57,5 grams!

Condition: Very Fine for the age and excarvated type! Fine metal, partly cleaned.

Ex. Hafnia Coins inventory (Copenhagen), aquired in the late 1990s.

A large Zoomorphic style bronze plaque with a loop for attachment on the back, Scythian c. 700-400 BC.

Attractive with a bird-like creature displayed in the advanced steppe style.

Size: 67 mm. tall and 29 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice VF, intact with a green patina.

Ex. Hafnia Coins, ancient coin dealer in Copenhagen, inventory from c. 1990s.

A large Zoomorphic style bronze plaque with a loop for attachment on the back, Scythian c. 700-400 BC.

Very attractive the a beast on top of a large spiral; in bronze alloy with some silver content.

Size: 55 mm. tall and 51 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice VF, intact with a black patina.

Ex. Hafnia Coins, ancient coin dealer in Copenhagen, inventory from c. 1990s.

A pair of nice gold beads for a necklace, Roman Empire, c. 2nd.-4th. cent. AD.

Size: c. 10 mm. / 0.60 grams.

Ex. Old Estate collection of Northern German, c. 1900-1970

Finely crafted more than 22 carat pure gold pendant depicting a Flower bud with a loop on the top and filigree decoration.

Condition: Very fine - still wearable, light tear at one side.

Size: 15 mm.

Weight: 0.69 grams

Ex. Old Estate collection of Northern German, c. 1900-1970.

Finely crafted more than 22 carats pure gold pendants depicting Bullas, holsters for script rolls, both with loops and one with an extra attachment with a loop a top.

Condition: Very fine, Still wearable, with some light tear and wear.

Size: up c. 20 mm. tall and 12 mm. wide

Weight: 1,58 grams.

Ex. Old Estate collection of Northern German, c. 1900-1970.

Very rare pair of Greek jewelry pendants in high grade 22+ carats Gold.

The nicely crafted pendants depicting Pommegranates. The original gold chain still attached on both. In the picture it looks like one is shorter but they are both the same length. Quite heavy ancient gold jevellery!

Condition: Choice, Still wearable and can be used as earrings or in a necklace.

Size: Up to a length of 2,8 cm.

Weight: 3,18 grams.

Ex. Old Estate collection...

Attractive two-section gold earring, with a round frame on the ring and below as a drop-shaped hanger, Roman 2nd.-4th. century AD.

With some inlay still present in the hangers.

Size: 28-29 mm. long

Weight: 1,61 grams.

Intact and still wearable.

Ex. Old Estate collection of Northern Germany, c. 1900-1970

Elaborate Gold earring with two pendants set with pearls / nacre beads, Roman 2nd.-4th. century AD.

Attractive earring of nice high grade gold, 22 carats or more.

Size: 35 mm. long.

Weight: 1,40 grams.

Intact and still wearable.

Ex. Old Estate collection of Northern German, c. 1900-1970

A very attractive bronze protome figure of a leopard, with finely made details, such as the spots in the skin and the nice details of the head. Roman Imperial, c. 1st. cent. AD

The forepart of the leopard in a seated position, it's silver plated with a bronze core.

Size: 4,2 cm. wide and 3 cm. tall. Weight: 44 grams.

Ex. Gert Cleff, Wuppertal, aquired at Gerhard Hirsch Nachf., München Auktion 286, 2013, Lot 340.

A lovely two-section gold earring, a square plaque with a depression and below as a hanger, a nice decorated fruitform, Roman 2nd.-4th. century AD:

Size: 28 mm.

Weight: 1,55 grams.

Intact and still wearable.

Ex. Old Estate collection of Northern German, c. 1900-1970

A very atractive bronze seal ring with two standing figures - helmeted and probably female deities, Late Roman, 3rh.-5th. century AD.

The ring of a typical Roman design with raised shoulders and rectangular bezel.

Ringsize (inner diameter): c. 19 mm.

Condition: Very fine, small chip to the side of bezel, attractive museum-style cleaning and preservation. Fully wearable and strong!

Comes with the original collection ID-Card from the Oberländer collecti...

A very atractive bronze seal ring with two confronting figures, probably angels, standing, Late Roman-Byzantine, 4th.-6th. century AD.

The ring of a typical Roman design with raised shoulders and oval bezel.

Ringsize (inner diameter): 19 mm.

Condition: Good Very fine, attractive museum style cleaning and preservation. Fully wearable and strong!

Comes with the original collection ID-Card from the Oberländer collection!

Provenance: Gustav Ob...

Scarce and attractive ancient glass vase with funnel mouth, Roman 1st.-3rd. century AD.

The flask in blue-green glass with nice silverish patination.

Height: Near 10 cm.

Condition: Superb. Strong with good walls.

Provenance: Old Private Collection and aquired before 1990 in the German antiques market.

Attractive and rare type of glass vase, Roman 1st.-3rd cent. AD.

The flask in almost clear glass with beautiful thin irridescence!

Size: 12,2 cm.

Condition: Very fine and intact, some fragments reassembled nicely, but intact, nothing missing.

Provenance: Old family Collection, 1900-1970.

Attractive and rare type of biconical vessel / vase with rim slightly outward, Roman 1st.-3rd cent. AD.

The vase with beautiful irridescence!

Size: 12,2 cm.

Condition: Superb. Perfectly preserved.

Provenance: Old family Collection, 1900-1970.

A wonderful and intact inscribed stone slab or stele, Visigothic reign of the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal), c. 5th.-6th. century AD.

This white stone carving was possibly made for funerary purposes and represent the early style in Gothic stonework, where the inspiration from the Roman era was profound, but still combined with the wonderful Visigothic elements. The stele with three spikes at the top, like the roof of a church or house, in the center an engraved wheel-like element and b...

Here's 4 nice pendant in Carnelian and glass, 1st. millenium BC - 100 AD.

Note the nice pair of glass birds with iridescence and also the carnelian floral bead.

Size: 1,6 cm. max.

Ex. Old Private Collection, aquired before 1980s.

A finely preserved lead bust or head of a young aristocrate, 1st. century AD.

Interestingly the features of this bust identical to the features of the young Caligula and surely Julio-Claudian period.

Size: c. 4 cm. tall.

Ex. Old Private collection

A very rare and attractive glass flask or vase, decorated with sea animals, Roman Empire, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

The flask with fine decorative impressions of sea animals - an octopus and a wonderfully detailed firsh on the surface. The neck is straight and undecorated and with a flat ring as a lip atop. Light blue-green glass.

Size: 11,2 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice for type - a hairline repair where the neck meets the body.

Ex. Danish Private Colle...

Interesting pottery figure depicting a very fat deity, Roman, 1st.-3rd. century AD:

Seated naked with a fat belly, ancient losses to extremeties.

Size: 8 cm. tall.

Ex. Old German collection, aquired before 1980.

Greek terracotta figurine portraying a nursing woman. Such a depiction is considered a kourotrophor: a protector or nurturer of children. She is wearing a chiton and a veil and she is nursing a naked boy. Late Etruscan / Italian, ca. 5th.-4th. century BC.

Size: c. 14,5 cm. tall and 8 cm. deep.

Condition: Choice! With repaired crack at the lower part and still with it's pigment and encrustations preserved.

Ex. Old Private collection, aquired before 1980.