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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1489976
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A pair of strictly mueum quality German Wheel lock pistols, made for a German Prince for his personal gards, probably Saxony, late 16th. century.

The pistols are huge and at the same time very elegant with their slender form and lavishly inlaid with engraved staghorn compricing of of huntings scenes with dogs and game, and highly delicate folliage overall. Interestingly, there's different scenes of hunting on each pistol, while the folliage inlays are matching...
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$7,250.00
A very large and impressive Wheel-lock pistol, from Suhl, Germany, steel fitted and with ebonized stock, c. early 17th. cent.

Armoury / regimentsmark inlaid in the handle and stamped with Suhl control mark.

Size: 55 cm. long.

Condition: Nice Very fine, faint traces of hairline repair to stock at one place, very nicely done and almost not visible, perhaps from the time of use. Cleaned metal parts, later ramrod, othervise intact and choice.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1489788
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$22,500.00
A lovely and extremely rare, large version of a Wheel-lock pistol in Noble quality, Germany, Augsburg, c. 1570-1580.

With swamped two-stage barrel, struck on the top flat of the octagonal breech with the Augsburg mark (Neue Støckel 1294), and the cock of the fine metal lock is engraved with marine monsters.

Ebonized full stock inlaid with white staghorn or bone panels between horn lines and borders mainly engraved with overlapping foliage and scrollwork...
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A very nice untouched Hungarian Wheellock Musketeer's powder flask, circa. 16th century. Stag horn body with wrought brass mounts.

The staghorn is engraved and there's a beautiful central medallion on the front with a geomethric hexagonal star-shaped design, especially known from Byzantine Emprire, c. 10th.-12th. cent. Beautiful patina!

Size: 14 cm. tall.

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A beautiful and rare powder flask, late renaissance, Early type of the mid 16th. century.

The iron mounted flask was finely made with impressed corduan leather on an oakwood case. The flask engraved with the monogram of the German Knights of the Teotonic Order (T.O.V.R = Deutch Orden Ritter). On the other side, it's decorated with the artful crowned monogram of a noble member of order, the letters intertwinned are 'MNV', and the crown is probably that of a Count...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1487914
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A fine Neck-ring or Torc, European dated to the bronzeage, c. 1500-1100 BC.

Twisted bronze collar ring from the Middle Bronze Age of Central Europe.

Size: 14,3 cm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, with minor corrossion and small chips to the finials.

Old German Private Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1487913
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$295.00
A fine Viking style bronze Torc or Torque, Early medieval period, likely Baltic Vikings (Vikings or the Rus), ca. 800-1000 AD).

An open necklace, likely for a warrior, open at one end, the ring finely fluted and the terminals with dot and line geomethric decoration.

A torc, also spelled torq or torque, is a large rigid or stiff neck ring in metal, made either as a single piece or from strands twisted together.

Size: Nearly 17 cm. in diameter...
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$895.00
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An extremely rare bronze Cauldron, probably Flemish or Northern European workshop, c. 13th.-14th. century AD.

Cauldrons prior to the 16th. century are very rarely seen on the market. This cauldron is excarvated and covered in the most beautiful patina. The shape is typical for European medieval period, the handles are curvy, ending in animal head-like terminals and very different from the Gothic style handles of the cauldrons in later periods...
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A lovely early European Crucifix of Christ nailed to the Cross, c. 15th. cent.

The Oak figure of Jesus carved in a wonderful Gothic style, three nail type with some preserved pigments. The later baroque pine wooden Cross, painted black with a small sceleton head below his feet...
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$695.00
A wonderful quality pottery Jug from Siegburg, Germany dating to the 16th. cent. AD.

A type called Trichterhalskrug in German, that often was made with an oval or round medallion at teh front. In this case the medallion is unusually crisp and elaborate for the type and depicts a coat of arms for a city or a wealthy House.

Size: 16 cm.

Condition: Good very fine for the often heavily restored type and age. Our specimen is completely intact but for a micro thin h...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1483831
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$150.00
Interesting large bronze pendant in a Lunar or crecent shape with two loops, Dark-age or Viking 8th.-10th. cent. AD.

Attractive and wearable today with decorations on the surface.

Size: 43 x 35 mm. - very thick weighing 53.68 grams!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of ancient seals ans some amulets between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer spec...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1482939
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$275.00
A large and beautiful Scandinavian style bronze Fibula decorated with knobs and profusely engraved, c. 8th.-9th. century AD.

Impressive piece of jevellery that comes out of a very old German collection.

Size: 76 mm. long!

Condition: Nice Very fine, missing iron needle and sound metal, mottled green patina.

Ex. Rudolf Rack, Bad Nauheim, near Frankfurt, collection formed from around 1950.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1482936
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$595.00
A large and beautiful Scandinavian style bronze shield or tortoise brooch or Fibula decorated with intertwinned dragons, c. 8th.-9th. century AD.

Impressive piece of jevellery that comes out of a very old German collection.

Size: 64 mm. wide and 56 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, with intact needle and sound metal, mottled green and brown patina with some azurite on the back.

Ex. Rudolf Rack, Bad Nauheim, near Frankfurt, collection formed from...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1481062
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$475.00
An exceptionally large and attractive bronze bow fibula, Migration period, Ostrogothic / Merovingian, c. 6th.-7th. cent. AD

The fibula with semi-circular headplate with four profiled knobs, rhomboid footplate with an animal-head ending. Head and footplate decorated with carved bulls-eye ornaments.

Size: 16,3 cm. long - very large for these!

Reff. See Gorny & Mosch auction 252 lot 395 for an almost similar size and type, estimated and sold for €1000.
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$375.00
A superb gilt and coloured parchment leaf from a religious work, France, c. 1450.

Han-written page with the tiniest details and among the finest we've had ever of the early type from the late medieval period of the 15th. century. The decorations includes lavish use of leaf gold to highlight letters.

Size: 18 x 13 cm. nicely framed in a gilt frame so that only the text is visible and with COA from a German dealer on the back.

Condition: Exceptional for age and typ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1477600
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$165.00
Impressive filigree silver 'temple' ring of a very elaborate type, Viking settlers from Scandinavia (Kingdom of the Rus or Kievan Rus), present day Ukraine, c. 800-1000 AD.

Beautiful and still wearable temple ring, in solid silver, which consists of a bow ring with a loop and an elaborately carved filigree bead. These rings were worn from a headband around the temples by Viking Rus women, hence the name Temple rings.

Size: c. 3 cm.

Condition: Extremely Fine for ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1477599
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$250.00
Two different silver & bronze 'temple' rings, Viking settlers of Scandinavia, Kingdom of the Rus or Kievan Rus, present day Ukraine, c. 800-1000 AD.

Beautiful and still wearable temple rings, one with three 'knotted' pendants or beads in cobber or bronze with some silver and another in solid silver with cuprite inlays along the edge of the the 4 projecting decorative knobs. These rings were worn from a headband around the temples by Viking Rus women, hence the name Temple rings.
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : European Medieval : Pre AD 1000 item #1477598
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$165.00
Large and impressive silver 'temple' ring, Viking settlers from Scandinavia (Kingdom of the Rus or Kievan Rus), present day Ukraine, c. 800-1000 AD.

Beautiful and still wearable temple ring, in solid silver, which consists of a bow ring with a loop and three elaborately made knobbed beads. These rings were worn from a headband around the temples by Viking Rus women, hence the name Temple rings.

Size: c. 4 cm. Weight: 6,55 grams.

Condition: Very Fine for type. One...