Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 86

The Manuscripts, Collectibles & Space Auction

Roman

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1442		Carnelian Gold Signet Ring, ca. 1st-3rd Century AD. A deep red carnelian ring engraved with a hybrid creature, with forepart of a bull coming out of a nautilus shell, and below is a mouse or rat. The seal might make references to astrology and astronomy with all the elements of the Taurus, shell, and mouse. The stone is set in an original ancient gold setting. Fine Condition. We note some damage to the gold on the basket of the ring in two places. Measures: 5.75 ring size; Weighs: 3.9 gm. Estimated Value $1,500 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $870
Lot 1443		Gold Hercules Knot Ring, ca. 1st Century AD. This beautifully intricate ring is called a knot of Hercules or marriage knot. It is a strong knot created by two intertwined ropes of gold. It originated as a healing charm in ancient Egypt, however is it best known from Greece and Rome as a protective amulet, most notably as a wedding symbol. Extremely fine. Measures: 1.5 ring size; Weighs: 3.8 gm. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $750
Lot 1444		Child's Gold Signet Ring, ca. 1st-2nd Century AD. A gold child's ring set with a red jasper intaglio of a winged female griffin with hooked beak, pointed ears, forepaw raised; all on a ground line. Wearable. Measures: 2.5 ring size; Weighs: 2.4 gm. Estimated Value $500 - 600. Ex Bedelle Jewelry Collection, Boston, 1967. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $384
Lot 1445		Child's Gold Ring, ca. 1st-2nd Century AD. An original child's gold finger ring set with a dark green gemstone, with four gold globules around the sides of bezel. Wearable. Measures: 1 ring size; 2.4 g; Weighs: 2.4 gm. Estimated Value $300 - 400. Ex Bedelle Collection Boston, 26 July 1967. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $288
Lot 1446		A 4-piece lot of Roman Engraved Signet Seals. 1) A small oval, very finely delineated Roman (Greek?) seal of a flying insect, ca. 1st-3rd Century AD. The eyes, head, legs, joints, and wings with internal vein structure are clearly articulated. Lightly polished. Measures: 10 X 8 mm. 2) A brilliant red cornelian oval polished seal of an insect, possibly an ant with deep and finely delineated eyes, head, mandibles, pro-thorax, all perfectly centered. Roman, 1st century AD. Measures: 8 X 6.5 mm. 3) A white chalcedony oval ring stone seal engraved with the image of a pair of horned bulls, heads raised as if smelling the scent of danger, surrounded by reads and flora on a ground line. Measurements-14 X 12 X 4 mm. 4) A dark brown ring stone seal engraved with the image of two wild Asian ponies grazing on a ground line, ca 1st-3 century AD. Measurements- 15.5 X 12.5 X 4.5 mm. Estimated Value $300-UP. Ex Sotheby Antiquities, London 21 December 1970; Lot 146, part. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $781
Lot 1447		Roman Gold Friendship Ring, ca. 1st-3rd Century AD. The face of it depicts two hands clasping, or showing friendship, and framed in a rectangular shape. Very Fine. Measures: 4.75 ring size; Weighs: 3.8 gm. These rings have been common since Roman times, and in Italian and even Celtic societies. The clasping hands, or mani in fede, were used to show friendship, an agreement and most frequently as wedding rings. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $810
Lot 1448		Bronze Roman Engraved Signet Ring, ca 1st-3rd Century AD. A simple banded signet ring with a single granulation pellet soldered next to the purple stone; engraved with the image of a bird. Wearable. Measures: 6.5 ring size; Weighs: 4.0 gm. Estimated Value $250 - 300. Ex Harlan J. Berk Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $288
Lot 1449		Red Carnelian Signet Ring, ca. 1st -3rd Century AD. A circular red carnelian ring stone engraved with a Persian hat. Mounted in modern gold ring setting. Wearable. Measures: 5 ring size; Weighs: 5 gm. Estimated Value $250 - 300. Ex Bedelle Jewelry Collection, Boston, 1967. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $238
Lot 1450		Marble Female Torso Fragment, ca. 1st-3rd Century AD. A marble fragment of a female torso, wearing a pelpos and a cloth draped over shoulders; the head and arms missing, possibly purposely broken in early Christian times. Measures: 28 X 26 cm; Weighs: 32 lbs. Estimated Value $750 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $5,040
Lot 1451		Large North African Red-Ware Plate, ca. 1st-3rd Century AD. A unusually large red-ware plate with alternating stamps of two different types of leaves around the center of the basin. Intact with a 15.5 cm crack from rim to the center showing repair. Measures: 6 cm tall; Diameter: 29.5 cm. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $240
Lot 1452		Decorative Bronze Attachment, ca. 1st-3rd Centuries AD. Female head facing, with short, centrally, parted hair. From the head, in a crest-like shape, two curved volutes with raised circular protrusions, the center recurring into a double volute, each with a circular protrusion; surmounted by a partial hand. The reverse bears two partial attachment pins. These attachments were commonly found on Roman parade helmets, elaborate furniture, large bronze implements, etc. Pleasing emerald green patina. Measures: 6 X 5 cm. Estimated Value $300 - 350. Ex Collection of Major General Cornelius Mann, Shooter Hill, England. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1453		North African Fine-Ware Plate, ca. 1st-3rd Century AD. A medium sized fine-ware plate with upturned lip and slight base. Written on the base the location the piece was found: "Sbeitla, Tunisia." Some earthen deposits. Completely intact and free of repairs. Measures: 3 cm tall; Diameter: 20.5 cm. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $180
Lot 1454		Pale Blue Glass Flask, ca. 1st-2nd Century AD. A pale blue flask with a piriform body, long cylindrical neck that ends in a flat flaring rim and pinched at the body; slight iridescence on the body and white iridescence dispersed throughout. Completely intact and free of repairs. Mounted to custom stand. Measures: 14 X 9.5 cm. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $180
Lot 1455		Pale Blue Glass Flask, ca. 1st-2nd Century AD. A glass flask with bulbous body, flattened bottom, cylindrical neck with a large flat flaring rim. It is pale blue with a slight iridescence on the body. Only blemish is a minor chip to the lip. Measures: 14 X 9.5 cm. Estimated Value $250 - 300. Ex Maple Drive Collection, 1983-1989. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $475
Lot 1456		A 2-piece Lot of Small Roman Glass Vials. 1) Bottle with a globular bottom, a short neck, and wide flared funnel rim; has some silver iridescence around. Measures: 5 X 4 cm. 2) A blue conical flask with flat bottom and conical body, long thin cylindrical neck and slightly flared lip; bluish silver iridescence around. Mounted to custom stand. Measures: 6.5 X 4.5 cm. Estimated Value $250 - 300. Ex Maple Drive Collection, 1983-1989. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $240
Lot 1457		Small Pale Blue Glass Unguentarium, ca. 1st-3rd Century. A vial with a pear-shaped body and a long thin neck; pinched between the neck a body; slightly flared lip. Slight iridescence and earthen deposits; filled to rim with soil. Measures: 9.5 X 2.5 cm. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $90
Lot 1458		Inlaid Bronze Hippocampus, ca. 2nd-3rd Century AD. Roman bronze and enameled fibula of fine quality, lacking the pin, inlaid with yellow, blue and red areas to form the figure of a hippocampus. Inlay is intact. Excellent piece. Measures: 49 X 33 mm. Estimated Value $300 - 400. Ex Sotheby Antiquities, London, 24 Jan. 1972, Lot. 82, part. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,120
Lot 1459		Roman Black-Ware Bowl, ca. 2nd-4th Century AD. A Roman black-ware bowl with a tall base; floral pattern stamped in basin around a center sun stamp. Intact with only a few minor chips on the rim and some earthen deposits. Measures: 6 cm; Diameter: 16 cm. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 1460		Romeo-Egyptian Engraved Signet Seal, ca. 2nd -3rd Century AD. A Romeo-Egyptian black ringstone seal engraved on one side with three crowned figures. Reverse: Three-line inscription. Measures: 13 X 10 mm. Estimated Value $250 - 300. Ex Collection of Major General Cornelius Mann of Shooters Hill, England, 1830-1850; Ex London Art Marked 1990's. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $660
Lot 1461		North African Red-Ware Christogram Oil Lamp, ca. 4th-5th Century AD. An oil lamp depicting a Chi-Rho christogram, embellished with a floral and geometric pattern, in the discus, and arrow design around neck; knob handle and two filling holes. Shows some ancient use. Choice condition. Completely intact and free from repairs. One of the finest we have seen. Measures: 14.5 X 8.5 cm. Estimated Value $700 - 900. Ex Sternberg Auction XXIII, Zurich (20 November 1989), Lot 111. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $450
Lot 1462		Rainbow Colored Glass Flask, ca. 4th Century AD. A beautiful glass flask that exhibits an iridescence with the full spectrum of rainbow colors. It has a tubular neck with one bulge in the middle; the body flares out from the neck and the tapers to a point. Completely intact with a fine fisher crack line. No evidence of repairst. Included with custom tripod stand. Measures: 10 X 4 cm. Estimated Value $300 - 350. Ex Maple Drive Collection, 1983-1989. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $252
Lot 1463		Mold-Blown Green Glass Sprinkler Bottle, ca. 4th-5th Century AD. A small green glass jar with a bulbous ribbed body and short cylidrical neck; polychrome iridescence on all around. Competely intact and free of repairs. Measures: 7 X 6.5 cm. Estimated Value $300 - 350. Ex Maple Drive Collection, 1983-1989. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $336