Lot 446
 

A collection of antiquities and later objects of interest, to include a black stone polished axehead, circa 3000BC, from near Lake Chad, South Sahara, 6cm; a Cunieform clay tablet and tablet sherd, 4cm & 3.4cm; an Ashante bronze gold weight, modelled as a man scraping bark from a tree, 5.8cm; a further Ashante figural gold weight, 7.3cm, a Burmese Hintha/Hamsa duck weight, 6.5cm, a small bronze weight cast as an elephant on stepped base, 2.5cm; a Persian clay relief moulded panel, 10.5 x 8.6cm; a collection of flint arrow heads and other flint tool, a lump of meteorite, a fossilised ammonite, a 17th century pewter spoon, the bowl with touchmarks; a bronze Merchant Taylor School nmedal, 1875; and an obsidian bust of an Aztec, 8cm

All from a private Bedfordshire collection.

The axe head purchased from The Ancient World (Bernard C Pickard) in 1973.

The Ashante gold weight of the man and tree purchased from BA Seaby Ltd in 1981

A note states the origins of the flint axeheads and tools as derived from the Gunnersbury Museum, Cissbury Hill Fort in Essex and Brettenham in Norfolk.

Sold for £420


 

A collection of antiquities and later objects of interest, to include a black stone polished axehead, circa 3000BC, from near Lake Chad, South Sahara, 6cm; a Cunieform clay tablet and tablet sherd, 4cm & 3.4cm; an Ashante bronze gold weight, modelled as a man scraping bark from a tree, 5.8cm; a further Ashante figural gold weight, 7.3cm, a Burmese Hintha/Hamsa duck weight, 6.5cm, a small bronze weight cast as an elephant on stepped base, 2.5cm; a Persian clay relief moulded panel, 10.5 x 8.6cm; a collection of flint arrow heads and other flint tool, a lump of meteorite, a fossilised ammonite, a 17th century pewter spoon, the bowl with touchmarks; a bronze Merchant Taylor School nmedal, 1875; and an obsidian bust of an Aztec, 8cm

Provenance

All from a private Bedfordshire collection.

The axe head purchased from The Ancient World (Bernard C Pickard) in 1973.

The Ashante gold weight of the man and tree purchased from BA Seaby Ltd in 1981

A note states the origins of the flint axeheads and tools as derived from the Gunnersbury Museum, Cissbury Hill Fort in Essex and Brettenham in Norfolk.