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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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Three Neolithic Grinding stones (Millstone) from the Libyan Sahara Desert. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. 42 x 30 x 3 cm (largest)
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Stone axe - Costa Rica. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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14 small Neolithic flint tools. From Surrey, UK, some points, mostly scrapers. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Clay tablet - Mesopotamia. Cuneiform writing on both sides. Purchased in London. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six Neolithic upper grinding stones (Mullers) from the Libyan Sahara Desert. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Large Neolithic stone axe. From the Libyan Sahara Desert. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two Neolithic stone axes. From the Libyan Sahara Desert. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 17 cm (each)
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Three Neolithic stone axes. From the Libyan Sahara Desert. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Four Neolithic stone axes from the Libyan Sahara Desert. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Four Neolithic stone axes. From the Libyan Sahara Desert. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three Neolithic stone axes. From the Libyan Sahara Desert. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 8.5 cm (longest)
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Two small stone axes (Celts). From Mexico, one made from basalt & the other from Mexican jade. From the collection of the American Archaeologist John Perry, who collected & excavated in central West Mexico 1945-1952. Length 10 cm (longest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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70 Bondi points. Collected in 1967 from the north Cronulla sand hills in Sydney & from four areas south of Sydney - Garie beach, Bass point, north Windang beach & lake Tabourie sand hills. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Knife with gypsum handle & stone blade. Darling river, NSW. Length 14 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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11 Aboriginal seed necklaces. From the Kimberley, WA, collected 1950-1960. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two Aboriginal stone drinking mugs. One from Muloorina, SA, 48km N of Maree, Se of lake Eyre, the other, Hermannsburg, NT. Length 9 cm & 16 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two old Aboriginal stone tools. Edge ground axe found at Heathcoate in 1969; & scraper/point found in 1890 at Rosedale by Mr T. Smith while digging for Molybdenite. Victoria. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Grinding stones (top & bottom or Muller & Millstone). North of Broken Hill, NSW. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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11 various Aboriginal metal tools & spear heads. Mostly made out of horseshoes, from Dunham river station, East Kimberley, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six hafted spearheads. All collected in 1890, two glass from Kimberley, WA; two porcelain from telegraph insulators from alligator river area of NT; one stone (quartzite) from Central Australia; & one metal shovel nose spear head (made from a horseshoe with the nail hole still visible) from the Kimberley, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Nine spearheads, Kimberley, WA. Six made from glass including. One with the remnant of resin hafting & one from Dunham river station, East Kimberley, also 3 Kimberley points made from stone including. One from Halls creek, Kimberley. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three Aboriginal engraving tools. Materials including. Wallaby jaw, incisor tooth; kangaroo sinew; & triodia resin, Western Desert tribe, collected, Warburton range, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Paper bark wrappings & native string. with four Kimberley spear points. Three of greenish glass & one of insulator porcelain, finely made, from the Kimberley, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two wooden message sticks. One flat from central Queensland and the other round from Western Central Australia, both from the Perrott. Collection (R.I.Perrott 1822-1895). Length 19 cm (longest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Edge ground stone axe. Mt Isa, Queensland. Diameter 10 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Flint axe & small flint Scraper. Port MacDonnell, south of Mt Gambier on the coast of SA, together with a small flint scraper from the Bight, SA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three pieces stone, from the Aboriginal axe stone Quarry. Mt William near Lancefield, 78km N of Melbourne, together with an article by D a Casey dated March-April 1971. Also an edge ground stone axe, previously hafted, from Wangaratta, Victoria. the green stone is from the Aboriginal Quarry at Mt William near Lancefield, Victoria mentioned above & was traded throughout. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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50 various Aboriginal small tools. Including microliths from cape Schanck near Port Phillip bay, Victoria. There is a small map of where the tools were found. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Six various Aboriginal small tools. From the environs of Melbourne, Victoria including. Bacchus Marsh, Eumemmerring near Dandenong, Eltham & Mornington Peninsula, Se of Melbourne. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Grinding stones, top and bottom or Muller and Millstone north of Broken Hill, NSW. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Large stone axe, central Queensland. From the collection of R I Perrott (1822-1895). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 24 cm
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Small edge ground axe, Queensland. From the collection of R I Perrott (1822-1895). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Aboriginal Sharpening stone. From the Dunham river station, East Kimberley, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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World War I trench warfare club (against humans and rats). Australian/British, lead core loaded, retained by match headed batten nails, augmented by boot studs, carved handle. Length 45 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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World War I trench warfare club. Austro Hungarian of the type used on the Italian front & on the Western front in 1917-1918. Length 58 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Early 20th century Gurkha knife. Leather scabbard & wooden hilt. Length 46 cm
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Australian Army World War II 303 bayonet, frog & scabbard. the blade is marked Oa (orange Arsenal) & 44 & the frog is dated 1945. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 58 cm
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86 various Police cloth arm badges. Mostly from USA, a few from Canada, together with an old wooden policeman's truncheon. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Various old horse riding Spurs. Thirty five pairs & twelve singles, mostly from England & Germany, some from Australia, together with a quantity of chains, leather straps & buckles. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three Western Australian goldfields bottles. Including a blue castor oil bottle; large tomato sauce bottle; & a Dutch gin bottle from Rotterdam, commonplace in WA in the late 19th century. Together with an old gold assay crucible from Kalgoorlie WA, around 1900. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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1960s Astor Playgram. Portable radio & record player with grey & burgundy Bakelite case. 40 x 31 x 15 cm
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Two albums of Notgeld (Emergency money), 1914-1924. Mostly German, some Austrian, in excess of 800 notes, very little duplication. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Quantity 30 old Chinese coins from the Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty,1644-1912. Including three modern Chinese coins (1975, 1978, 1988). Also including. Small engraved double headed (Janus) figure, Chinese, height 12 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Four early Disney character illustrations. 'Donal Duck Jet Pilot,' (14 x 19 cm); 'Donald Duck Ski Champ,' (14.5 x 12.5 cm); 'Mickey Mouse Polar Explorer,' 14.5 x 12.5 cm); & 'Mickey Mouse in Red Suit,' (14 x 14 cm). Together with early print of Mickey mouse blowing bubbles. Gouache
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Schuco radio 5000 clockwork car. Saloon car in red & cream, with original key & box.
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Late 19th century brass Medina fish. Articulated fish with red paste eyes (one damaged).
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Five various Chinese cloisonne items. Letter opener; two match cases; ash bowl; & lidded trinket box.
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17th century pocket bible. Printed by Charles Bill, London, 1698. Leather binding & spine in good condition. Some pages shaved. 12 x 7 x 5 cm
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Wathen, L C girl Pushing her doll W/Clr & pencil 10 x 15 cm
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World war I trench art by soldiers of the 52nd Battalion, AIF, communion set. with crucifix & two candle stick holders with a plaque, one marked Ypres and 52 & the other Menin gate Memorial Menin gate in Ypres, Western Flanders, Belgium was the gateway of Australian, other Commonwealth & British soldiers to the battlefields in the Ypres salient of 1917, where 36,000 Australian soldiers were killed or wounded. the Menin gate Memorial including. Those Australian soldiers whose bodies were never found. the…
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Two 1939-1945 World War II Prisoner of war zinc Identity tags. One for Stalag Viiic (adjacent to the famous Stalag Luft III) near Sagan, Germany, now Zagan, Poland, built in September 1939, after the fall of Tobruk in December 1941, it housed Australian & South African POWs. Prisoner number 70206, the other for Oflag Xiiid, a Pow camp for officers at Nuremberg (Nurnberg) in Bavaria, opened November 1942 & closed in 1945. Prisoner number 6448. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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German Iron Cross, 2nd Class, World War I. with ribbon bar & a very small Iron Cross. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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German Iron Cross, 2nd Class, with ribbon, World War I. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Art Deco wooden book rack. with inlaid bronze & enamel plaque 'Wood From HMAS Sydney.' length 64 cm height 16 cm, width 24 cm
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Boer war & World War I medals for private Louis J. Palmer, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, no 3926 (Boer war) & no D/2 0987 (World War I). the Queen's South African medal with 5 clasps (diamond hill, relief of Kimberley, Drienfontein, Paadeberg & Johannesburg) & the King's South African medal with two clasps (South Africa 1901 & South Africa 1902); 1914 (mons) star with a clasp (entitlement due to date of embarkation on 6/9/14 within the entitlement date range of 5/8/14 to 22/11/14); 1914-1918 War Medal &…
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Archive - World War I Australian soldier of the 48th Battalion, AIF. Including trench art cigarette ashtray with German belt buckle, other German belt buckles, Australian & German jacket buttons, Australian insignia, German metal soap (Seife) container with a German World War I Iron Cross 2nd Class, German cigarette case, bullet & cartridge case, some British badges; photograph of the private soldier and a friend and a large photograph of the officers of the 48th Battalion after the 1st Battle of…
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NSW doctor's car badge, British medical Association member. Last issued in 1962 when the Bma branches became the Ama, usage continued into the 1970s when it ceased because the badges drew the attention of drug addicts to doctors' cars. Including horn handled walking cane with engraved silver collar, (84 cm). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Indo-Persian engraved brass tray. Octagonal brass tray engraved with lions, gazelle & scrolling foliage. Diameter 60 cm
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Sheets handmade marbled paper. Type formerly used for the endpapers of books, in excellent condition as new, slightly variable size ranging from (50-52x 65-71 cm, each sheet has a different pattern, five are labelled on the back Cockerell, Grantchester, Cambridge, England & of these three are dated 1977 & two are dated 1978. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Humorous 19th century spill vase. Terracotta spill vase depicting a hunter tormenting his sleeping friend. Height 15 cm
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Three 19th century pewter items. two tankards & a jug.
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Six Beswick porcelain dog figures. Arnoldene dalmatian (height 14 cm); & doberman pinscher (15 cm); & two collies, a German shepherd & an Afghan, height 14 cm each (approx)
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Australian studio pottery vase. Reticulated lyrebird motif. Indistinct signature to base. Height 16 cm
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Shearer, Peter (New Zealand school) glazed stoneware vase with painted blossom decoration. Label affixed to base for van Helden gallery, Wellington. Height 27 cm
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Salt & Wood-fired glazed vase. Bulbous form with incised signature to base. Height 32 cm
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McConnell Carl (b.1926) shallow salt -Glazed bowl. Speckled body & incised rim. Potter's exhibition mark to base. Diameter 12.5 cm Provenance: The Verlie Just. Collection.
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Greenaway, Victor (b.1947) white stoneware carafe, jug & bowl. Magnesium glaze with cobalt & iron dragonfly decoration. Each with impressed seal to foot. Broomhill Pottery. Height 30 cm, height 13 cm, D16 cm (bowl)
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Amos, Irene (1927-2012) 7 various glass sculptures. Several with labels to base, two pieces incomplete / damaged. Height 71 cm (tallest) Provenance: The Verlie Just. Collection.
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Book, 'Elves & Fairies of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.' Verses by Annie R Rentoul. First edition, pub. Lothian book Publishing Co Pty Ltd, 1916. Bookplates all present & in good condition. Book with original cardboard slipcase (very poor condition). All pages present but some loose, spine fragile, moderate foxing throughout.
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Books (3), 'The Book of Kells,' described by Sir Edward Sullivan. 4th edition, pub. 1933; 'Prayers Written at Vailima,' by Robert Louis Stevenson, pub. 1910, 2nd impression; & 'The Procession of the Kings of Scotland, From Duncan & Macbeth. .' 1902.
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Book, 'Archaeologia Scotica - Scuptured Monuments in Iona and the West Highlands,' by James Drummond. Pub. 1881. Limited edition no.95.
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Book, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' by Arthur Rackham. Pub. 1908, Wiliam Heinemann, London.
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Book, 'Vincent Brown, Life & Work.' de luxe limited edition 144/160, signed by Vincent brown, Ed. Lin Bloomfield, pub. Odana Editions, 1980. Contains signed original etching 'The Book Lover,' 72/80. Some foxing.
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Books (4), 'Sydney Illustrated,' by John Skinner prout & John Rae. Limited edition, reproduction print 122/750; 'Ralph Rashleigh,' by James Tucker, limited edition of 1000, pub. 1952; 'Fourteen Journeys Over the Blue Mountains of NSW,' by G Mackaness, pub. 1965; & 'The Art of Arthur Streeton,' limited edition by Sydney Ure Smith, pub. 1919.
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Books, a survey of Chinese ceramics, volumes I -V Liu Liang-Yu, pub. Aries Gemini Publishing, Taipei, 1991.
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Book, 'Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania.' Hardy Wilson, limited edition #538/1000; pub. By the author, Union house, Sydney 1924. Complete with 50 plates. Some foxing.
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Book, 'Masterpieces of Netsuke Art,' pub. 1975, Weatherhill press, Ny. with slipcase.
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Two cigarette card albums. One late 19th/early 20th century from NSW & one dated 21/12/1900 from Britain, the British album including. Many Boer war & some Chinese cards. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Book, 'Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. Edited by Colonel Sir Charles W Wilson, in 4 Volumes, Folio (32.5 x 25 cm), Numerous Engravings on Steel & Wood, (Pub. Around 1880), J S Virtue & Co. Ltd, London. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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The VC and DSO in 3 volumes. Edited by Sir O'Moore Creagh up to 1920 & by E M Humphries, volume one the Victoria Cross 1856-1920, volumes two & three the Distinguished service order 1886-1915 & 1915-present, vno date, but it was published in 1924. Hard bound in red cloth binding, pub. By the standard book Co, London. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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19th century camera Lucida. Gilt brass in fitted case with trade label for Flavelle Bros. Sydney. Length 20 cm
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Socketed bronze axe or Halberd head. Also one other bronze head axe. Length 17.5 cm & 12.5 cm (socketed). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three bronze items, knife, small Spearhead & large Arrowhead. Together with 3 bronze spearheads. 25 cm (longest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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10 bronze Arrowheads. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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10 various bronze Arrowheads. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Bronze Garment decoration with engraved figure. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Stone Macehead & one small bronze fitting. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Bronze toggle pin with bird finial. Together with two other hair or clothing pins with decorative ends. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 8.5 cm
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Six plain bronze bracelets diameter 9 cm (largest). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three blue glass Roman bracelets. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Diameter 7 cm
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Two antique Roman silver items. Siver earring; & silver spoon (cochlearium). Together with a horse's bit with animal head cheek pieces; & a bronze mirror with folding handle (length 19.5 cm). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three bronze Roman items - ring key, belt buckle and fibula (garment pin). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two small Roman glass flasks. Pale brown (13 cm high) & pale green (6.5 cm high). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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1 Extensible bronze bracelet (diameter 4 cm). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Three bronze bracelets with animal head Terminals (diameter 6.5 cm). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Small Roman ceramic patterned oil lamp from Palestine (length 9 cm). Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two Pre-dynastic Egyptian alabaster containers & small slate Ushabti figure height 7 cm (figure) 11.5 cm & 5.5 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Two Neolithic Egyptian tools - flint Arrowhead & Scraper. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 17.5 cm (longest)
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Three Restrung necklaces of Egyptian faience Mummy beads. Around 600-300 BC. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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Quantity Mummy Bandages & Shroud material. Small piece of bone stained with pitch together with the pitch used for its mummification, & fragments of pottery, glass & alabaster. Purchased in London from the estate of a British soldier who had been in Egypt in World War I. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth.
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