Auctions
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Here’s a very interesting (to me) lot from the upcoming June auction of antiquities at Christies this June. As often seems to be the case, the poor lass is legless, headless, and armless, but what’s really interesting (again, to me) is the evidence on her shoulders that her hair was down. I can’t recall ever…
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Yesterday I was wading through a pile of Roman glass etc. (none of which was very interesting) and decided I wasn’t going to cover auctions any more. Then, of course, something interesting came up from the Ventura County Collection again, via Bonham’s. Here’s an item at Live Auctioneers officially described as Roman, c. 100-300AD., a…
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Plenty of stuff from Live Auctions this week, with varying degrees of provenance: Roman, c. 100-300AD., a nice and very small silver (ring; ex Ventura County Collection … not sure what that means) Roman, c. 100-300AD., a lot of 2 small and choice (ditto … a couple of flasks) Roman Egypt, Alexandria, c. 305-30BC., a…
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… again, without any information about origins. This time, it’s a Roman dagger (pugio) and spear tip: This is lot 901 and is the only Roman item with a photo in this section of the online catalog. Interestingly/suspiciously, it is flanked by A Collection of Roman Glass Artifacts (898), A Roman Earthenware Patera (899), A…
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Just last week my spiders began picking up items from Live Auctioneers … apparently others have been doing so as well, as both Dorothy King and ARLT mentioned a few days ago on what was actually the first one that popped into my box. Today I get notice of this “1st to 3rd Century Marble…
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