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A Pitcairn Islands Carved Wood Model of a Fish, on a rectangular stand, 38cm long, 23cm high; a Plaited and Woven Sennet Casket, of oval form, with hard wood stepped domed cover and base with four peg feet, elaborate brass mounts and lock, 23cm wide, 21cm high.(2)**Model of fish: by repute collected by the original owner from the Pitcairn Islands when in the Royal Navy during the war in the 1940's.
Guide Price: £200-400
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A La Tolita, Colombia/Equador Stone Whistle, carved as a seated deity, with stylised ram's head and human body, 6.5cm high; a South American Terracotta Flask, modelled as the figure of a man with large facial features and ears, seated naked with his hands clasped to his chest, decorated with chevrons and pendant beads in black, cream and red, 20cm high; a South American Earthenware Rattle, of flattened pear shape, painted in red, black and blue; a Chinese Jade Type Figure, of Shou Lao; a Native Small Steel Knife, with triangular blade and twisted grip (5)
Guide Price: £50-80
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A Baule, Ivory Coast Wood Sceptre, the slightly flattened cylindrical haft with incised tendrils, concentric circle and wave motifs, the head carved with a stylised mask with pierced coffee bean eyes in oval sockets, aquiline nose, open mouth and deep curved chin, with upturned wave carved back cresting, 47cm, some damage; a Zulu Knobkerrie, with small globular head, the tapering haft with three bands of woven brass wire; a British Second World War Machete, in leather sheath; an Irish Blackthorn Shillelagh, of small proportions. (4)
Guide Price: £100-150
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A North American Shaman or Back Woodsman's Hat, of coir type material, set with coiled leather and coiled wire tubular receptacles - possibly for feathers
Guide Price: £400-500
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A Mulolo, Eastern Zaire Spear, with broad finely worked ribbed socketed head, the long thin wood haft partly bound with coils and strips of copper, with steel pointed butt (carried as status symbols, currency or as a badge of office); a Ligbi, Sikasso, Ivory Coast Wood Dance Mask, the oblong face with horn like headdress over chequered forehead, pierced elliptical eyes, long fine nose and open mouth, 40cm high; an Eastern Cameroon Brass Bag, the lost wax made flattened body set with rings hung with bells and further ring, with a rising lid; a Collection of Thirteen Strings of African Trade Beads, including yellow 'Kano', Hauser beads, and others from Mali, Sudan, Mauritania and Southern Africa (16)
Guide Price: £250-300
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A Rare String of 18th Century Gujaret, India Carnalian Trade Beads (Babaghoria) of faceted and elongated oblong form; an Early 20th Century Senufo Cult Figure, Ivory Coast, as a woman with crested coiffure, pointed breasts and long arms, on a shallow plinth, 26cm high; a Pair of Fang Wood Figures, of a man and a woman, each with a deep centre parting to the hair, and with upturned face, 31cm and 26cm high; an Early 20th Century Baule, Ivory Coast Wood Gbekre (Baboon Mask), the eye sockets and teeth decorated with a white pigmentation, 31cm high; two African Carved Wood Figural Catapults. (7)
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A Zulu Ebony Staff, carved as a man standing with one foot resting on the mouth of a snake with zig-zag body carved with dot motifs, 99cm high (repaired)
Guide Price: £60-80
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A Dyak Head Hunter's Dark Hardwood Stool, carved in the form of a stylised fruit bat, the well defined head with scroll carved snout and bone inlaid large disc eyes, the large flat rounded seat inlaid with two further bone discs, the whole raised on four peg feet, 51cm long.
Guide Price: £200-300
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A Pitcairn Islands Fruitwood Smoker's Companion, with inverted bell shaped (candle) nozzle set onto an elongated octagonal block pierced with two pipe holders and carved with two clasped hands, inscribed "Hands Across the Sea - A Souvenir Made on Pitcairn, The Place Where the Mutineers of the Bounty Landed in the Year 1790", on a turned stem and square plinth, 23cm high.
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By and After C Canton - "Negroes, Aborigines of Africa", hand coloured engraved bookplate, published by Richards Evans, 1816, 23cm 18cm, framed and glazed.
Guide Price: £40-60
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