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Fine Tribal, Oceanic Art & Antiquities - Lillian Hoffman Estate — Guy Earl-Smith & Antiquity

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Auction House:Guy Earl-Smith & AntiquityNumber of lots recorded:690
Sale Title:Fine Tribal, Oceanic Art & Antiquities - Lillian Hoffman EstateLots with images:687
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:657
Date:1-Aug-2010
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Two fine opalised fossil Specimens, a marine gastropod and opalised pine cone crystal, 12-20 cm (2)
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A Collection of Opalised Specimens, including polished marine bivalves and coprolites, 2-11 cm (21)
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A Collection of Opalised Marine Specimens, including bivalves and gastropods, some within their matrix, 1.08 kg
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A Collection of Opalised Marine Specimens, including animal bone fragments, bivalves and gastropods, 1.76 kg
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A Collection of Opalised Specimens, some with polished facets, 4.01 kg
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A Collection of Opalised Specimens, including belemnites 3-10 cm (19)
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A Collection of Mammalian Teeth and Claws, including canines and incisors, various species, 1.4kg
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Three Whalebone Fragments, possibly section of a rib, excavated samples, polished, Alaska, 21-34 cm (3)
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Four Copralite Specimens, 4-17 cm (4)
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A fine fossil shark tooth, Carcharodon megalodon, an attractive specimen from the extinct white shark, Miocene, 7.5-10.5 cm
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Two Fossil Crabs, some fragmentation, rejoined, 12-16 cm (2)
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A Collection of Eight Fossil Teeth, possibly the incisors from large carnivorous predators, 4-13 cm (8)
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Two Fossil Teeth, one of a shark, both within their matrix, 7-9 cm (2)
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A Collection of Six Fossil Crustaceans, Thalassina sp., salt water mangrove lobsters, one rejoined, 4-15 cm (6)
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Two Fossil Specimens, a nautilus and a trilobite, 11-13 cm (2)
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A Collection of Fossil and Mineral Specimens, Some within their matrix, 3-16 cm (26)
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A fine fossil Trilobite, well preserved within matrix, 24 x 20 cm
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A fine specimen of fossil Trilobites, the six organisms embedded in a matrix, 42 x 48 cm
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A collection of eight Fossils, including ammonites and trilobites, 5-12 cm (8)
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A Collection of Baltic Specimen Amber, the small fragments with various insects preserved, 1-5.5 cm (6)
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A rare fossil Baobab seed Pod, well preserved, with stalk intact, 14 cm
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A Fine Fossil Dinosaur Egg, high polished with the interior visible, China, 15 x 9 cm Provenance: Purchased from The Crystal Gallery, Sydney, 2001. Purchase receipt available for the buyer
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A Collection of Various Fossils, including ammonites and trilobites, some cut and polished, 4-21 cm (11)
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A Collection of Various Fossils, including bivalves, gastropods, some within their matrix, 2.5-21 cm (28)
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Four fossil fish plates, including Mioplosus sp, Eocene, 7.5-35 cm (4)
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Two fossil Specimens, embedded in their matrix, 20-39 cm (2)
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Four Fossil Plates, two with leaves, Glossopteris sp., 11-17 cm (4)
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Three Fossil Specimens, of marine flora and fauna, 23-35 cm (3)
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Three fossil Specimens, c.345 mill. BP, including crinoids and other marine fauna, USA, 19-32 cm (3)
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Four fossil Crinoid Specimens, c.345 mill. BP, embedded in their matrix, one fragmented, USA, 3-47 cm (6)
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Two fossil Crinoid Specimens, c.345 mill. BP, embedded in their matrix, USA, 24-33 cm (2)
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A fossil specimen, of a terrestrial vertebrate, within a moulded base, 45 x 28 cm
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A large Crinoid fossil plate, c.345 mill. BP, embedded in their matrix, USA, 74 x 50 cm
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Four Mineral Crystal Specimens, the thinly sliced polished cross sections, 16-23 cm (4)
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Three Mineral Specimens, the polished fragments displaying various crystalline and mineral structures, 11-15 cm (3)
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Three Mineral Specimens, including rhodonite, 8-21 cm (3)
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Two Decorative Mineral Specimens, highly polished, 8-22 cm (2)
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Four Decorative Mineral Specimens, one surface polished, 8-15 cm (4)
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A Splendid Quartz Crystal Specimen, of large proportions, with smaller specimen, 74 x 37, 17 x 12 cm (2)
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A Collection of Mineral Samples, 4-18 cm (15)
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Five Lithic Artefacts, the edge-ground stone blades, one in the form of a celt, various cultures, 11-15 cm (5)
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Three Lithic Artefacts, of edge-ground stone, various cultures, 13-15 cm (3)
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Nine Lithic Artefacts, the edge-ground stone blades, one with signs of flaking, various cultures, 5-15 cm (9)
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Four Lithic Artefacts, of edge-ground stone, various cultures, 11-14 cm (4)
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Collection of Twenty-Three Lithic Artefacts, of various edge-ground and flaked-stone tools, various cultures, 4-14 cm (23)
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A Bone Tool, A Stone Sculpture of A Whale and An Ochre Nodule, various cultures, 7-17 cm (3)
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A collection of American Newspaper Announcing the Assassination of President Lincoln with various other printed material, including early American printed advertisements, stamps and Australian paper currency, 32-72 cm
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A Folder containing a collection of American civil war and Slavery Documents, including various letters, envelopes and a five dollar note from the city of Wapello, and slave transfer document, 26 x 23 cm
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An American Civil War Flag and a Group of Civil War Era Envelopes, the silk flag with 'Union' in gold lettering against a red background; each of the envelopes franked and presented in a frame, 41-56 cm (2)
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Five North American Plains Artefacts, including a pair of leather moccasins with glass bead embroidery, a leather pouch with glass bead embroidery, a stone hammer with leather binding, a poucy of hide with fibre binding, 10-66 cm (5)
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A Collection of North American Plains Lithic Tools, including flaked arrow heads and various blades, 1-5 cm
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Five North-West Coast Artefacts, of ivory, bone and shell, four amulets and an axe head, USA, 4.4-12.2 cm (5)
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Jeff King and Maud Oakks, Where The Two Came To Their Father: A Navaho War Ceremonial, Folio, with 18 loose pochoir prints, First edition, Pantheon, New York, 1943, 22 x 43 cm
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Three Zuni Fetishes, of stone in the form of frogs, one signed by artist, 4.2-6 cm (3)
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Four Zuni Artefacts, three stone fetishes and one metal bracelet, 6-12 cm (4)
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A South American Vessel, of armadillo shell, decorated with polychrome beadwork, 27 x 14 cm
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Three South American Artefacts, including two necklaces of polychrome glass beads and coin pendants, and a mate de cocoa drinking straw of copper alloy, 20-57 cm (3)
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Four Mexican Political Protest Sculptures, of low baked clay, in relief in figurative form, decorated with polychrome paints, 19-23 cm (4)
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Two Wax Sculptures and a Churubic Figure, of wax and wood with polychrome paints, the two wax tableaux each with inset images of the Baby Jesus, South America, 10-14 cm (3)
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A sculpture of the baby Jesus, in wax, on a bed and pillow of brocade, South America, 21-57 cm (3)
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A Collection of Cuna Indian Gold Jewellery and Apollo 11 Luna Landing Commemorative Medallion, including necklaces, rings and earrings, 2-49 cm (12)
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A Collection of South American Lithic Artefacts, of diminutive stone amulets and chisels, 3.8-7 cm (6)
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A Collection Six of Pre Columbian Ceramic Vessels, some with figurative motifs in relief, 4.5-16 cm (6)
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Two Pre Columbian Ceramic Vessels, with raised motifs to exterior, 16-17 cm (2)
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A Collection of Seven Pre Columbian Ceramic Vessels, some decorated with figurative motifs in relief, 10-13.5 cm (7)
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A Collection of Seven Pre Columbian Ceramic Vessels, some decorated with figurative motifs in relief, 8-12 cm (7)
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A Collection of Four Pre Columbian Ceramic Vessels, some decorated with figurative motifs in relief, 10.5-14.5 cm (4)
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A Collection of Seven Pre Columbian Ceramics, four vessels, two whistles and a phallus 7.5-17 cm (7)
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Three Pre Columbian Ceramic Vessels, decorated with figurative motifs in relief, one with polychrome pigments, 16-23 cm (3)
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Three Pre Columbian Ceramic Vessels, of a neckrest and two vessels, 8.5-15.5 cm (3)
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A Collection of Pre Columbian Ceramics, including four vessels, a pot stand and a quantity of rings, 18-22 cm (4)
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Two Pre Columbian Ceramic Vessels, in the form of a figure and a phallus with anthropomorphic visage at apex, 10.5-24 cm (2)
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A Collection of Six Pre Columbian Ceramics, including a vessel and various figures, 6-10 cm (6)
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A Collection of Pre Columbian Ceramics, including various figures and whistles, 2.5-8.5 cm (16)
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A South American Dance Costume, of woven fibre with grass tassels, polychrome pigments, 135 cm
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A South American Dance Costume, the woven cane visage decorated with polychrome pigments, grass fibre tassels, 172 cm
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Five Amazon Rainforest Garments, of bark fibre, including three tunics, decorated with polychrome pigments, one embroidered with seeds and bird beaks, and a pair of shorts and a bag, 23-80 cm (5)
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A Bhutanese theatrical tiger costume, the woven fabric overalls decorated with tiger stripes in polychrome paints, eight amulet tiger masks attached to the anterior, together with a wooden tiger mask, decorated with inset teeth and boar tusk, and hair, 31-135 cm (2)
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Two Bhutanese Yak Wool Carders and a Pulley, of wood and metal, 30-35 cm (3)
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Two bronze Kond sculptures, 19th century in the form of a woman holding child with umbrella, and a swing shrine, bronze, India, 16-21 cm (2) Provenance: Purchased from Art of the Past, Madison Avenue, New York, in 1997 Note: This lot is sold with the purchase receipt
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Three Naga Copper Alloy Castings, in male and female form, above wooden bases, North East India, 21-27 cm (3)
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A Naga Headtaker's Hat and Scabbard, of woven cane, wood, bone and cloth, North East India, 29-55 cm (2)
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Two North East Indian Belts, of bone, woven fibre and glass beads, one belt detached, Nagaland, 65-87 cm (2)
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North East Indian Headtaker's Belt, of bone, woven cane, glass, beads, bear teeth, shellembroidered woven cloth with two copper alloy masks, Nagaland, 90 x 82 cm
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North East Indian Headtaker's Belt, of bone, bark fibre, polychrome glass beads, woven cloth and copper alloy ornaments, Nagaland, 85 x 60 cm
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North East Indian Headtaker's Belt, of bone, polychrome glass beads, woven cloth and copper alloy ornaments, Nagaland, 71 x 80 cm
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North East Indian Headtaker's Belt, of bone, polychrome glass beads, woven cloth and copper alloy ornaments, bear teeth and boar tusk, Nagaland, 82 x 73 cm
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Two North East Indian Body Ornaments, of bone, polychrome glass beads, woven cloth and copper alloy ornaments, bear teeth and boar tusk, Nagaland, 51-74 cm (2)
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Naga Longhouse Ornament, of wood and buffalo horn, Northeast India, 39 x 44 cm
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Three North East Indian Baskets, of woven cane, 39-44 cm (3)
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A Naga Headtaker's Spear, of metal in composite form with leather grip, 163 cm
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Two Northeast Indian Masks, of wood, one with two inset teeth, 23-28 cm (2)
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Four Tibetan Tantric Skulls, of human bone, decorated with metal overlay and glass beads, one with red paint to the interior, 17-20 cm (4)
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Three Tibetan Body Ornaments, woven cloth, bone amulets, bone beads 20-53 cm (3)
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Collection of Three Tibetan Artefacts, including a skull drum (damaru), and thighbone trumpet (rkang-gling), of human bone, with metal, coral and turquoise, 15-102 cm (3)
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A Tibetan Monk's Apron, of woven cloth embroidered with bone amulets and beads, some detached, 67 x 60 cm
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Three Tibetan Costume Pieces, including a pair of animal hide boots, rainhat of human hair, wool monk's hat cut-pile wool on fabric base, 22-46 cm (3)
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Three North East Indian Body Ornaments, of polychrome threaded glass and shell beads, 84-120 cm (3)
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Two Northeast Indian Necklaces, one of threaded shell sections, the other of blue glass ceramic and stone beads, 96-134 cm (2)
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A Collection of Mammal Tooth Pendants, temporarily strung including a pearl bead, various cultures, 18-54 cm (3)
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