Antiquities

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THREE ANCIENT HARDSTONE AMULETS
Circa 2nd-1st Millennium B.C.
Including an Egyptian steatite heart amulet, New Kingdom, circa 1550-
1070 B.C., 27mm long; and two Mesopotamian calcite duck weights,
circa early 1st Millennium B.C., 19mm-20mm long (3)
Provenance: Hugh Stanley Russell (1924-2000) Collection, acquired
between 1950s-1970s. Gifted to the current owner in 1972.
£80-£120
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION AND GLASS BEADS
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom, circa 2133-1070 B.C.
Including spacer mummy beads, tubular beads, disc-shaped beads,
and composite examples, in red, yellow, blue, white and turquoise,
2mm-20mm long (a lot)
Provenance: German private collection, Bavaria, formed prior to 1980.
£150-£250
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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEAD NECKLACE
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, circa 1550-1295 B.C.
Composed of bi-conical blue and turquoise beads, interspersed with
disc spacer beads, thirteen poppy seed-pod pendants, six fruit
pendants, four Hathor head pendants, one Bes pendant and another
moulded as a scarab
Provenance: Bernard C. Pickard Collection, England, acquired in the
1970s.
£300-£500
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEADS
Middle Kingdom, circa 2133-1797 B.C.
Barrel-shaped, in different shades of turquoise, green and blue, approx
15mm-20mm long (a lot)
Provenance: French private collection, Mr Haumont, acquired in the
1970s.
£150-£250
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN BRIGHT BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION
BEADS
New Kingdom, circa 1550-1070 B.C.
Of fine tubular shape, approx 15mm-20mm long (a lot)
Provenance: French private collection, Mr Haumont, acquired in the
1970s.
£200-£300
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN MISCELLANEOUS BEADS
Middle Kingdom to Late Period, circa 2133-332 B.C.
Including a quantity of spacer mummy beads in different colours with
some miniature examples, some conjoined and multiple disc beads,
some turquoise examples, and a group of glass and carnelian beads of
different shape, approx 1mm-15mm long (a lot)
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEADS
New Kingdom to Late Period, circa 1550-332 B.C.
Including miniature blue spacer beads, mummy beads in assorted
colours and a group of tubular beads, approx 2mm-20mm long (a lot)
Provenance: French private collection, Mr Haumont, acquired in the
1970s.
£150-£250
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEADS
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
Including green spacer mummy beads and several blue and turquoise
tubular beads, approx 5mm-20mm long (a lot)
Provenance: French private collection, Mr Haumont, acquired in the
1970s.
£150-£250
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN DARK BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION BEADS
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
Of tubular shape, approx 20mm each (a lot)
Provenance: French private collection, Mr Haumont, acquired in the
1970s.
£150-£250
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A LARGE GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEADS
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
Green, yellow, white, red and turquoise beads, including spacer
mummy beads, tubular and composite examples (a lot)
Provenance: German private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia,
formed in the 1970s.
£200-£300
Provenance: German private collection, Bavaria, formed prior to 1980.
£200-£300
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