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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.
Guide Price: £100-150
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A Dark Hardwood Staff, the ovoid head pinned with sheet brass figures of stylised animals and fish, surmounted by a baluster finial, the tapered haft bound with steel wire, 79cm long.
Guide Price: £50-80
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An African Carved Wood Head, of a man with close cropped hair, deep set eyes, a bone piercing his long nose, with slit mouth and scarified cheeks, bearing traces of white pigment, 23cm high.
Guide Price: £40-60
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A Fang, Gabon Wood Mask, with high domed forehead, heart shaped face with long slender nose, pierced coffee bean eyes and pierced raised mouth, bearing traces of red pigment, 34cm high.
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An African Hardwood Comb, with six long tines, the flat handle pierced and carved as a bird, 26.5cm 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.
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A Loango Coast, Angola Ivory Tusk, carved with a spiral procession of fishermen, farmers, and tribes people, with an elephant, bird, fish and a locust, with scalloped rim, 55cm long. (pre-1946)
Guide Price: £200-300
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A Polychrome Wood Tribal Mask, possibly Tlingit, North West Coast of America, with furrowed brow, slits below the elliptical carved eyes, small ears, nose with flared nostrils, large grimacing mouth with four fang like teeth, painted in ochre, red, cream and black, 20cm by 19cm, good patination, possibly later paint, but with some paint loss.
Guide Price: £400-600
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An African Large Hide Shield, possibly Cape Buffalo, of elliptical form, with rolled edge, a central wood pole laced through in six sections, 135cm high overall, 38cm wide.
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A Basonge Ebonised Wood Mask, with medial ridge running down the forehead to the angular nose, with block carved mouth, the forehead and cheeks painted in pink, blue and white bands; a Fang Type Wood Mask, the narrow domed forehead and eyes applied with decorative twisted wire, the borders painted with a white pigment. (2)
Guide Price: £70-100
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