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Estate & Collector — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:533
Sale Title:Estate & CollectorLots with images:526
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:466
Date:15-Sep-2019
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De Courcy Jones, Helena G portrait miniature of a woman Gazing Skyward. Monogrammed middle left 'Hcj' & faintly inscribed verso 'Mrs Clare Bull?' in oval frame. Provenance: collection Cleopatra Rochfort Daunt (1860-1944); thence by descent - private collection NSW. 8 x 7 cm (overall)
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Two portrait miniatures. Portrait miniature 'Age of Innocence,' after Sir Joshua Reynolds 13 x 11 cm (overall); & portrait miniature of Lola Montez, signed middle right 'Merten.' in ivory laminated frame. 14 x 12 cm (overall) (Nb: export restricted). Provenance: collection Cleopatra Rochfort Daunt (1860-1944); thence by descent - private collection NSW.
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De Courcy Jones, Helena G portrait miniature of Queen Alexandra of Denmark. Inscribed verso 'Queen Alexandra at the Time of Her Marriage. . By Helena G Jones. .' Provenance: collection Cleopatra Rochfort Daunt (1860-1944); thence by descent - private collection NSW 11.5 x 10.5 cm (overall)
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Japanese Meiji Kiseru & Tonkotsu. the smoking pipe (kiseru) with metal ends incised with bamboo leaves. the tonkotsu (tobacco pouch) in the form of Daruma.
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Early 20th century ivory puzzle ball. Diameter 5 cm
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Japanese ivory carving of a lion. Together with a Chinese ivory puzzle ball. Nb: export restricted. Height 10.5 cm (lion)
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Three Indian ivory carvings. Elephant & two camels. 4 cm (each)
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Pair Indian turned ivory specimen vases c1920. Height 13 cm
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. Collection of gents wristwatches.
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. Collection of ladies wristwatches
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Three loose opals & bottle of Rough. Two boulder opal doublets; one triplet opals; bottle of rough.
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Quantity 9ct items. Pink gold bar brooch & dagger pin; pair yellow gold filigree earrings; & Hallmarked 9ct button hook, c1899. Wt. 8 g
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Seven various silver rings Wt. 28.4g (approx)
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Two early ladies wristwatches. One 9ct case Cyma & one gold filled.
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Two silver chains & filigree brooch Wt. 70.4g
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Various silver pieces. Including pearl brooch, bicycle, pendants, pearl earrings, gilt spoon and a Madonna Wt. 49g
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Graduated pearl necklace. Pearls graduate from 3.8 to 8.7 mm. with silver clasp. Length 43 cm
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Quantity costume jewellery
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Quantity mixed costume jewellery. Including cufflinks & enamel badges.
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Quantity costume jewellery
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Quantity costume jewellery
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Japanese Occupation Currency. Collected by an Australian soldier following the Battle of Balikpapan in July 1945. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Meteorite from Mundrabilla, WA 7.5 cm (approx.) Wt. 229g. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Meteorite from Henbury, NT. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 11 cm, width 330g
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Sikhote - Alin Meteorite from Russia (Siberia) 7 cm (approx.) Wt. 165g. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Meteorite from Wolfe creek, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Wt. 198g
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Box 45 Tektites (Australites) from the simpson Desert, SA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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28 Tektites from WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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9 large Tektites (Indo-Chinites), from Thailand. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Helictite & two small Stalactites from the beach at cape Naturaliste, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Large piece of amethyst from Brazil 14 x 9 cm (approx). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six coloured stones. Amethyst (Brazil); citrine (Brazil); white quartz (Greenbushes, WA); topaz (Londonderry, Coolgardie District WA); Sulphur (Bolivia); & lapis lazuli (Afghanistan). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Geodes from WA agate, agate & quartz, and others of chalcedony, cut & uncut. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Iron Ore - banded haematite, tiger iron & tiger eye. All from Pilbara, WA. Together with three samples of haematite from iron knob, SA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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8 pieces Darwin glass, Greenish glass, Meteoritic from Mt Darwin crater near Queenstown, Tasmania. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six varieties of Fools gold (Pyrites). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Four varieties of copper Ore. Two from Burra, SA, one from Broken Hill, NSW & one from Chile. Together with 3 varieties of Native copper, two from Boddington, WA; & one from Michigan, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two samples of zebra rock from lake Argyle, WA. One cut & one uncut. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three samples of Obsidian from Mexico. Two black & one clear blade. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Obsidian core & Bladelet. Collection of the American Archaeologist John Perry, who collected & excavated in central West Mexico in 1945-1954. Length 16 cm & 8 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Volcanic Larva from Mt Etna, Sicily. Three grey & one red. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Opal from Coober Pedy, SA. Two pieces of boulder opal from QLD & two pieces of opalized wood. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Minerals from Broken Hill, NSW. Two pieces of galena, one heavy & rich in lead & one lighter & rich in silver, copper (peacock) ore, crystalline gypsum (desert rose) & a small piece of native silver. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Large fish panel, green river, Wyoming USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. 50 x 28 cm
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Old & modern Minerals from Greenbushes, WA. Pegmatitic ores of tantalum, lithium & tin (5). 18.5 cm (longest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Petrified wood, Kennedy range, 150km E of Carnarvon, WA. the white areas 'Peanut Wood' are where damage from the marine wood-boring bivalve shellfish Teredo has been replaced with agate. 23 x 16 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three Fossils from the Libyan Desert. Starfish; sea urchin; & cone shellfish. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Fish & leaf Fossils from the Talbragar fossil bed, Gulgong, NSW. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two large Trilobites, Enfoud, Morocco. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 8 cm (each)
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Large Trilobite, Hamar, Laghdad, Morocco. Together with two Trilobites, north Wales, UK. Length 10 cm (largest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six pieces Fossilized coral & Fossilized shell Conglomerate. Yallingup, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two pieces Dinosaur Coprolite (Fossilized Faeces). Morrison Formation, Utah, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two Beaver Coprolites (Fossilized Faeces), Washington state, USA. Together with fossilized deer antler, Santa Fe river, Florida, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Fossilized Wasp nest. Replaced with limonite (hydrated iron oxide), Alice Springs Region, NT. Together with Crinoids, Gascoyne junction, 174km inland from Carnarvon, WA; & Fossilized Stromatolite, Drysdale river, Kimberley, WA, 3 billion years old. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Keichousaurus, small marine Reptile. Pachypleurosaur family, circa 212 million years. Purchased in London. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 14 cm
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Seven Belemnites. Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Desmostylus teeth, Herbivorous animal. Large hippopotamus-like creature, California, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Merycoidon Ruminant teeth, small terrestrial Herbivore. South Dakota, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Megalodon Vertebra, giant shark. Up to 20 metres long & 60 tons in weight, north Carolina, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Fossilized baleen whale Vertebra. Bone valley Formation, Polk County, Florida, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three containers of Fossilized shells. Devil's elbow, peppermint Grove, Perth, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six pieces Fossilized Mud lobster. Gunn point, Darwin, NT. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Glossopteris leaves, Cobbora via Dunedoo, NSW. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Dinosaur tooth (Spinosaurus), Taouz, Morocco. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Mososaurus tooth, Carnivorous marine Reptile, Khouribga, Morocco. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two shark teeth (Otodus Obliquus) in Matrix, Khouribga, Morocco. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Megolodon (giant shark) tooth. St Helena sound, south Carolina, USA. Length 15 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Megolodon (giant shark) tooth. Temblar Formation, south Carolina, USA. Length 7.5 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Dinosaur (Allosaurus) bone. Emery County, Utah, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Bivalve shell, Magallanes, XII Region. Chilean Patagonia, Southern Chile. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six pieces Petrified wood. Cobbora, via Dunedoo, NSW. 27 cm (longest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Fossilized shells, Jurassic coast, Dorset, UK. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Dinosaur Vertebra (Allosaurus). Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Large Agatized ammonite (Promicroceras). From Charmouth, Dorset, UK. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Four Calcified (Limestone) Ammonites, Morocco. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three Agatized Ammonites, Russia 10 x 13 cm (largest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Five pieces Copal. with insects, Madagascar,. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Fossilized leaves (Acer triscuspiclatum). Brezanky, Czech Republic. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Fossilized shells, bulldog Shale. Coober Pedy opal field, SA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Dinosaur bone, likely to be part of a Vertebra. Morrison Formation, Lance creek, Wyoming, USA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Four pieces Dinosaur bone. Together with seven small pieces of dinosaur bone, Hell creek, Jordan, Montana, USA. Length 20 cm (longest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three Ammonites. Including one pyritized ammonite within rock from Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK; & two small ammonites - one pyritized & the other agatized, both also from Lyme Regis. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Carved stone head. with some remnant of red, green & white pigment in the engraved lines, high Grade Ancestor figure from Malekula or a nearby island in Vanuatu, the stone is very hard, mostly ancestor figures are carved in fern stem, wood or coral. Late 19th or early 20th century. Previously owned by Lord McAlpine of West Green. Also owned by him & in the same collection were two standing drums from Ambryn Island, Vanuatu, purchased by the West Australian Museum in 1991 & displayed in the exhibition of…
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Small cylindrical stone. with both ends painted, pecked & hammer dressed small stone tool, Washkuk people, upper Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea. Likely to be a small stone axe, previously hafted for fine stone work but similar stones have been said to be magic stones. Similar stones but lacking the central area for hafting were used in New Caledonia as sling stones. Length 8 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Four small stone axes or adzes. Island of Savai'i, Samoa, old labels on three. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six very small polished edge ground axes or adzes. Island of Savai'i, Samoa. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Large stone ceremonial axe or pounder, Solomon Islands. Length 28 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six stone axes, fly river area, Papua New Guinea. Collected prior to World War II. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Canoe adze blade, upper fly river, Papua New Guinea. Collected 1937. Length 28 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Edge ground axe, Moriori (pre Maori). Chatham Islands, New Zealand, Fred Smith. Collection. Length 12 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Maori New Zealand stone hand axe. Excavated at Waitangi, Fred Smith. Collection. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 20 cm
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Maori New Zealand stone hand axe. Fred Smith. Collection. Length 12 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Maori New Zealand, stone axe. Previously hafted Previously hafted. Length 15 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Highly polished Maori New Zealand stone axe, adze or other tool. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 23 cm
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Large Perforated Maori New Zealand stone axe or adze. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 29 cm
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Two highly polished Maori New Zealand stone axes or adzes. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. 19 cm & 17 cm
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Six ground edge Maori New Zealand stone axes or adzes. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Five ground edge Maori New Zealand stone axes or adzes. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three small ground edge Maori New Zealand stone axes or adzes, Greenish stone. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. 14 cm (longest)
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Five ground edge Maori New Zealand stone axes or adzes from the Fred Smith. Collection. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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