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Africa, Trade/status seed beads (19), aquamarine strings (37), approx 16.5cm; mid-blue strings (4), approx 20cm (2), approx 56cm (2) [60]. All very good condition £30-50
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Africa, Trade/status beads, a small quantity of mixed origins to include Europe, Africa and the East, weight approx 350g [Lot]. Good overall condition £30-50
£30–£50
Burma, Manillas (2), both silver, ornamented and conical terminals, 7.3cm, 123g, plain Okombo, 5.8cm, 74g [2]. Good condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £75
Burma, Pyu coinage, 6th century, silver Unit of 10 Rattis, 0.95g/10h; together with other Burmese silver fractional Units (20) [21]. Mostly fine to very fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £65
Burma, Silver flower Tok, leaf patterns on obverse, crucible stained red and yellow on rev., 3 x 4cm, 41g. Very fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £35
China, Currency swords (2), fashioned from coins, to bestow good fortune [2]. Very fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £40
Congo, Armlet, 11.5cm, 1.83kg; Spiral Armband, seven coils, diameter 8cm, height 8cm, 1.01kg [2]. Both very fine, first with two minor file marks £40-60
Congo, Boloko (2), 33 x 26.5cm, 0.88kg; 38 x 32cm, 0.91kg (Quiggin pp.67-8, fig. 13) [2]. Both very fine £40-60
Congo, Calabar (2), iron, two-coils, both thumb size; Calabar, copper, four-coil bracelet; money rings (4), of brass, copper and steel, two interrupted [7]. Mostly good condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £10
Congo, Currency Knives (2), both with wooden grip, overall length 58cm [2]. Both very fine, first with grip slightly split £80-100
Hammer Price: £80
Congo, Currency Knives (2), with spear-shaped blade and wooden grip bound with white metal below, overall length 53cm; with wooden grip decorated with brass studs, overall length 48cm [2]. First rusted, otherwise very fine, second with some damage to grip, blade rusted and slightly corroded £70-90
Congo, Knife money, rounded spear shaped blade, wooden grip, overall length 48cm. A few chips to edges, otherwise very fine £70-90
Hammer Price: £15
Congo, Leg Manillas (2), diameter 22cm, height 13cm, 1.66kg; diameter 20cm, height 12cm, 2.0kg [2]. Both very fine £70-90
Hammer Price: £20
Congo, Manillas (2), copper, plain rod type with back markings, 8.3cm, 146g; ribbed back with lozenged paterned terminals, 8.3cm, 396g; silver(?) Tuareg influenced, plain back with polygonal teminals, 10.5cm, 116g; another, larger and ornate, 12cm, 182g [4]. Very fine £40-60
Hammer Price: £55
Czechoslovakia, Bohemia, mixed Czech glass beads, two strings of 28cm, one of 10cm, together with an assortment of black and red ‘olives’ and sundry other beads and ‘blues’ etc. [Lot]. Fine £20-30
£20–£30
Ghana, Arm Manillas (2), diameter 15 x 12cm, height 24cm, 3.64kg; diameter 11 x 10.5cm, height 9cm, 1.59kg [2]. Both very fine £60-80
Ghana, Arm Manilla, diameter 12 x 11cm, height 18cm, 2.83kg. Some encrustation, otherwise about very fine £30-50
Great Britain, English trade Manillas (3), Onoudu, Okombo and Aton patterns, 1850s to early 1900s, various alloys, all less than 6cm and less than 79g [3]. Two with green patination, one silver coloured, very fine £30-50
Iran, Coin status jewellery, bracelets (2), headpiece and a necklace [4]. One coin loose, otherwise in good condition £30-40
Liberia, Kissi Penny, iron bar currency, twisted, 37.5cm, 0.02kg (Quiggin pl.1, 11); South-East Africa, Brass Rings on a leather thong, 24cm (Quiggin p.94) [Lot]. Very fine £30-50
Madagascar, Ring Tail money (5) of the Antandroy tribe, made from mongoose tails [5]. Good condition, extremely rare £30-50
Madagascar, Shell money (6), probably Turbo Argyostomus of the Ihosy tribe (5); shell of Bugis tribe South Sulawesi [6] Good condition, extremely rare £40-60
Madagascar, Silver cut coins or ‘Vakimbola’ (11), mostly fractions of 19th century French 5 Francs, different weights and sizes [11]. Fine or better £30-40
Madagascar, Silver cut coins or ‘Vakimbola’ (12), mostly fractions of 19th century French 5 Francs, different weights and sizes [12]. Fine or better £30-40
Mali, Hambori, stone armlet, slate grey with flat opaque white veins, inner diameter 7.3cm, outer 11cm. Good condition £60-80
Hammer Price: £25
Mozambique, Glass beads, strings of tiny light blue beads (8), all approx 60mm in length [Lot]. Good condition £40-60
£40–£60
New Hebrides, Shell money (3), double holed shell string with five blue padre beads of 68cm; terracotta coloured disc string of 64cm; carved bone/vertibrae string of 23cm [3]. All in good condition £20-40
Nigeria, Currency bracelets (2), brass, ornate with sculptured terminals, 8cm, 447g; white metal, twisted strands with plain capped terminals, 7.5cm, 160g [2]. Good condition £30-50
Nigeria, Ivory Armlet, formed from a section of hollowed elephant’s tusk, 12 x 9cm. Very fine, patinated £50-70
Nigeria, Manillas (2), both decorated, with hollow rounded terminals, 11 x 9cm, 0.43kg, 10.5 x 9cm, 0.42kg [2]. Both very fine £50-70
Thailand, Lead ‘Flower’ Money (7), together with other lead Thai coins (14) [21]. Varied state £30-40
Thailand, Lead, interrupted rings (3), with thin backs and almost joining bulbous ends, 18, 15 and 10g [3]. Good condition £20-40
Uganda, Ivory money/status bracelets (2), one disc-shaped, approx. 12 x 10cm, one pipe-collar shaped, internal diameter 6cm; money bone, oval and dished, 10.5 x 8.5cm [3]. Very fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £30
Miscellaneous, Manillas and bracelets (9), assorted base metals, shapes and sizes [9]. All very fine £30-50
Hammer Price: £60
Atkins, J., The Coins and Tokens of the Possessions and Colonies of the British Empire, London, 1889, vi + 402pp, engraved illustrations in text (Manville 542); Oman, C., The Coinage of England, Oxford, 1931, xii + 395pp, 45 engraved plates (Manville 904); Brooke, G.C., English Coins, 1st edn, London, 1932, xii + 277pp, 64 plates (Manville 907); together with other references (21), by Wright, Dyer, Lobel, Sutherland, Hazlitt, Linecar, etc [24]. Publishers’ bindings; mostly clean £50-70
Bevan, G.M. (ed), Portraits of the Archbishops of Canterbury, London, 1908, 119pp, illustrations; North, J.J., English Hammered Coinage, vols. I and II, 1st edns, London, 1960-3, 198 + 183pp, 16 + 10 plates, djs (Manville 1061, 1105); Blunt, C.E., and others, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 16: Ancient British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest Coins to 1180 from the Collection formed by Mrs Emery May Norweb, London, 1971, ix + 87pp incorporating 17 plates (Manville 1228); C...
Blanchet, A., and Dieudonné, A., Manuel de Numismatique Française, vol. III, Paris [1936], vi + 610pp, 8 plates, the 1969 Forni reprint; Boudeau, E., Catalogue Général Illustré…de Monnaies Françaises (Provinciales), 313pp, engraved illustrations in text, the 1970 van der Dussen reprint; Duplessy, J., Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Paris, 1988, 325pp, engraved illustrations in text; together with other references on French coins (5), by Gadoury, Eklund,...
Bowring, J., The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins, and Accounts, London, 1854, 245pp, engraved illustrations (Manville 385); Liverpool, [1st] Earl of, A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm; in a Letter to The King, 3rd edn, London, 1880, xii + 295pp (Manville 492); Humphreys, H.N., The Coin Collector’s Manual, 2 vols, London, 1883, xxiv + 726pp, engraved illustrations (Manville 381, note); Montagu, H., The Copper, Tin and Bronze Coinage and Patterns for Coins of England, 1st edn, London, 1885,...
Cook, B.J., and others (eds), British Numismatic Journal, London, vols. 59-79 inclusive [1989-2009], London, 1990-2009 [21]. As new £150-200
Hammer Price: £180
Dalton, O.M., A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities…in the…British Museum, London, 1923, xi + 179pp, 17 plates and other illustrations; Skovmand, R., De danske Stattefund, in Aarbøger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie, Copenhagen, 1942, 275pp, illustrations in text; Dolley, R.H.M. (ed.), Anglo Saxon Coins: studies presented to F.M. Stenton, London, 1961, frontispiece, xv + 296pp, 16 plates, first free endpaper with the signature of Peter G. Smith, September 26th 1967...
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