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Estate & Collector — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:487
Sale Title:Estate & CollectorLots with images:481
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:408
Date:7-Aug-2016
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19th century Aboriginal small club. Curved flattened form with incised grip. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 39 cm
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Aboriginal hunting boomerang. Open curve hockey stick style with densely incised handgrip. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 79 cm
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Aboriginal Queen plate. Brass scalloped crescent crudely scratch engraved 'Ruby, Queen,' plus leaf decoration to each point. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Wt. 18g
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Aboriginal Breastplate. Brass crescent engraved 'Birabil' Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Width 17 cm
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19th century Aboriginal breastplate. Heavy gauge copper crescent. Crudely engraved 'Tommy Mura Stockman Donna' Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Wt. 23g
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19th century Aboriginal breastplate. Heavy gauge copper crescent with chased name 'Bunjiree' between a kangaroo and emu. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Wt. 21g
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19th century Aboriginal ceremonial club. Banded ochre markings with fibre and resin handgrip. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 101 cm
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Aboriginal Message stick or totem. Flattened spindle form with resin and sand markings incl. Sinuous line verso. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 92 cm
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Aboriginal Parrying shield. Narrow worked hardwood with incised banding and zig zag. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 80 cm
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19th century Aboriginal boomerang. Asymetrical club form with stone worked striations and incised grip. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 63 cm
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Aboriginal Message stick or totem. Flattened spindle form with chip incised pattern. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 87 cm
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Aboriginal hunting and Digging club. Dense hardwood tapering form with grip of resin and string. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 94 cm
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Aboriginal shield. Carved white ochre filled rectangular pattern. Remnants of peg handle. Collected central West NSW. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 70 cm
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Queensland Aboriginal hunting boomerang. Asymetrical flattened club form. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 67 cm
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Aboriginal Cylcon. Phallus form in sedimentary stone with all over incisions. Old losses. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 19 cm
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Aboriginal Cylcon. Short, straight tapered limestone form with sparse incissions. Old losses. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 17 cm
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Aboriginal large cylcon (message stone). Long, straight tapering form with groups of incisions. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 42 cm
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Aboriginal Cylcon. Curved, tapering form with hatching to base and shaft and other small incisions. Old losses. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 19 cm
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Aboriginal Cylcon. Curved tapering form with flattened and hatched base. Hatching to body and Three depressions. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 24 cm
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Aboriginal Cylcon. Atypical double tapered form in gypsum or limestone. Light longitudinal incisions. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 34 cm
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Aboriginal churinga. Large ovoid stone with annular and semi circular forms. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. 32 x 15 cm
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Aboriginal stone churinga. Smaller, narrow oval stone with pattern repeated both sides. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. 22 x 10 cm
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Aboriginal stone churinga. Metamorphic conglomerate stone ground. Very thin and incised both sides. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. 22 x 13 cm
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Aboriginal churinga. Hardpoint carving on dense black metamorphic stone. Small, old losses. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. 26 x 14 cm
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Aboriginal stone churinga. All over large annular pattern both sides. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. 17 x 11 cm
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Aboriginal stone churinga. Incised both sides to pale grey silt stone. Old losses to edge. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. 22 x 12 cm
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Aboriginal Cylcon. Mildly tapered, oval form with deep incised tip and 'V' Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 19 cm
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Aboriginal Cylcon. Straight tapered limestone form with incised bird tracks and longitudinal lines. Old losses. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 22 cm
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Aboriginal Cylcon. Straight tapering form with encircling incision near tip. Flattened base is crosshatched. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 25 cm
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Aboriginal small cylcon. Rounded limestone knob with deep medial groove to top. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Height 8 cm
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Aboriginal grinding or message stone. Oval form with concave face traversed by lines. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. 26 x 18 cm
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Three various Aboriginal boomerangs. Mid 20th century, one with peck carved relief kangaroos and emus. Length 12 cm (longest)
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Two various Aboriginal Message sticks. Curved pointed form with incised tips. Length 38 cm and 42 cm
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Two various Aboriginal message sticks. Older, weathered hardwood with carved message to each side. Length 27 cm (each)
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Aboriginal incised panel. Figural decoration to each side. 19 x 50 cm
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Aboriginal spear thrower. Broad acacia body with resin pommel and sinew bound peg. Length 58 cm
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Two various clubs. Western Pacific, with panelled, hatched and notched handle. Old splits; and Aboriginal club with pointed offset head. Length 71 cm (each)
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Early Indonesian pig form stand. Length 47 cm
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Papua New Guinea Sepik river carved stone head. Height 20 cm
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Two north African Headrests. One of Y form with leather thong; the other with Three shallow carved pillars. Heavy use patina. Collected London c.1965. Height 22 cm (tallest)
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Two African Shona Headrests. One with fretted deep carved pillar (losses to foot); the other in light wood with two pillars. Collected London c.1965. Height 16 cm (tallest)
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Indonesian headrest. Mythical animal form. Length 27 cm
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Two African Headrests. Including antique Ethiopian of simple curved block form; and Kenyan split footed type with incised triangle decoration. Collected London c.1965. Height 13 cm (tallest)
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Two Somalia Headrests. One a stepped cone with all over decorative carving; the other a simple Pi form with splayed legs. Collected London, c.1965. Height 18 cm (tallest)
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Two various Ethiopian Headrests. One of long rectangular form, scored and hatched; the other a simple circular pedestal. Both well used. Collected London c.1965. Height 20 cm (tallest)
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African Cameroon leather covered Quiver and Arrows. Including 7 metal tipped cane arrows. Marked 'KAPSIKI CAMEROUN.'. Length 55 cm (Quiver)
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Fijian carved Priest dish. Carved handle. Length 30 cm
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Two various Trobriand Island lime Spatulas, each with carved handle. Length 38 cm and 42 cm
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20th century Fetish figure. Carved hardwood figure with enamel painted filled incisions and dots. Length 42 cm
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Three various tribal artefacts. Including Tiwi or Groote Eylandt ceremonial forked club; Malaita pole club; and paddle. Length 120 cm (club)
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Sepik river earthenware vase. Mask head decoration, dated 1985. Quad footed. Rim chips to two feet. Height 14 cm Length 25 cm
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Two various Batak pottery medicine jars, each with carved wood figural stopper. Height 18 cm and 22 cm
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Two various Pacific Island carved walking canes. Shell inlay eyes to one. Both with carved head decoration. Length 93 cm (each)
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Papua New Guinea huon Gulf carved ancestor figure. Jamus head. Painted decoration. Height 93 cm
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Papua New Guinea Kawawari hook figure. Female form carving. Old losses. Height 90 cm
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Papua New Guinea Karawari river carved Yipwon. Height 74 cm
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Papua New Guinea carved male figure. Height 66 cm
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Maori Grass skirt. Plaited grass fibre waistband with integrated skirt. Purchased NZ 1950s. Length 70 cm
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Papua New Guinea Yuat river mask. Carved and painted with shell eyes. Height 46 cm
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Papua New Guinea Telefomin shield. Relief carved reserves filled with lime and ochre. Twin cane strap handles. Collected 1960s (Burns Philp employee). 163 x 51 cm
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Papua New Guinea Latmul large ancestor mask. Ovoid form, bird figure headdress, and shell inset eyes. Length 116 cm
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Aboriginal parrying shield. Hardwood with incision banding. Length 88 cm
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Papua New Guinea Yuat river wood figure. Figure of man. Remnants of ochre coating. Collected Papua New Guinea mid 1950s. Height 40 cm
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Older Stoneworked boomerang. Asymetrical curved form with linear grooves and red oxide coating. Old collection reference number. Length 72 cm
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Early Aboriginal ceremonial sword club. Finely hatched and incised pattern to top. Flat underside has fine linear grooves. Losses to both tips, and hanging hole drilled to tip. Length 108
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Aboriginal marineer shell necklace. Length 66 cm
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Two Western Pacific tabua. Both have crudely scratched initials. Length 15 cm (both)
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Four various Aboriginal spears. Two Groote Eylandt ceremonial spear heads; and two fishing spear heads, one in polychrome with decorative cane bindings. All have damage and losses. Length 84 cm
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Four various Pacific Island shell necklaces. Length 80 cm (average)
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East African hardstone carving of a Recumbent woman. Signed to base. Height 34 cm
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Map, L'Africa Divisa Ne Suoi Principali Stati. By Antonio Zatta, pub. Venice 1776. Hand coloured with pictorial title vignettes. Copper engraving. 31 x 41 cm
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Maps (2), world and Hemispheres. Map of the world Mercators projection by Johnson, pub. By Johnson and Ward, NY 1863; and the century Atlas Hemispheres, pub. By century Co. NY 1897. Steel engraving (2). 42 x 64 cm and 28 x 39 cm
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Map, Afrique. By Levasseur, pub. In Atlas Universel Illustre, Paris c.1870. Hand coloured steel engraving. 33 x 45 cm
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Map, 'Western Australia,' J Rapkin. Modern print taken from an original engraving. 35 x 25 cm
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Map, 'Partie de l'Australie,' 1756. 'Partie de l'Australie qui comprend la Terre des Papous ou Nouv. Le Guinee, et la Nouv. Le Bretagne,' l'Histoire des Terres Australes, Robert de Vaugondy, 1756. Engraving. 28.5 x 42 cm (sheet)
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Maps (2), Australia and NSW. Australien by Petermann, pub. By Justus Perthes, Germany 1871. Has inset Map of port Jackson; and NSW pub. By Tallis & Co. London c.1853. Hand coloured with Three pictorial vignettes. Hand coloured steel engraving (2). 36 x 43 cm and 36 x 26 cm
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Map, Eastern Hemisphere of the earth on a Plane. By J.Hardy, pub. By Newbery, London 1776. Shows van Diemens Land attached to mainland Australia. Hand coloured copper engraving. 24 x 22 cm
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Map, 'Nea-Polynesia,' William Faden, 1798. 'Nea-Polynesia or the Islands Newly Discover'd in the Pacific Ocean.'. Coloured engraving. 11 x 13 cm
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Map, 'Indiae Orientalis,' VISSCHER. Nicholas VISSCHER (1649-1702) 'Indiae Orientalis nec non Insularum Adiacentum.'. Engraving. 52 x 62 cm
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Map, NSW Coast Partie de la Nlle Galles du Sud. By Philippe Vandermaelen, published Brussels 1827. Coloured lithograph. 48 x 57 cm
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Chart of Norfolk Island showing the early Settlement 1789. Drawn by William Bradley 1788, pub.by J.Stockdale, 1789. Paper has watermark G.R. (government issue). Engraving. 47 x 43 cm
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Maps (2), Brasil and Guayana; and Cuba, Jamaica and Porto Rico. Pub. NY c.1856 J.H.Colton & Co. Hand coloured steel engraving (2). 42 x 34 cm and 32 x 40 cm
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Map, in Notitiam Ecclesiasticam Africae. Map of Spain, Eastern Mediterranean and north Africa by Philippe Buache, pub. Paris 1745. Hand coloured copper engraving. 49 x 64 cm
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Two various framed Charts of new Georgia and Sandwich Islands. Showing routes taken by Captain Cook 1775; and Lieutenant John short 1788. Published by W.Strahan 1777;. Engraving (2). 33 x 37 cm and 34 x 39 cm
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Two Tallis Rapkin Maps. 'New South Wales,' and 'Victoria or port Phillip'. Hand coloured engravings (2). 36 x 27 cm (each)
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Colonial photograph of Bernard Otto Holterman. C.1872. Gold miner, businessman, photographer and politician. In 1872 he found the largest gold speciman at Hill End 'The Holtermann Nugget'. Photograph signed in sepia ink, with studio stamp verso. 'American and Australasian Photographic Coy; Hill End' (possibly a publicity image after his gold find.). Hand coloured albumen photograph. 16 x 10 cm
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17th century copper engravings of French Noblemen. 23 engravings by Jacques Lubin (1637-1703) Jean Edelinck (c.1640-1680) and Claude Duflos (1665-1727). All on full sheets of laid paper (one pasted down) edges tatty, stains. 42 x 27 cm (23)
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Book 'The Studio 1898'. Spine torn. Board loose, otherwise appears intact.
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Books (4), various books on porcelain. 'Encyclopedia English pottery and porcelain,' Mankowitz/Haggar; 'Encyclopedia of British pottery and porcelain marks,' Godden; 'Phillips Guide to English porcelain,' Sandon; and 'The British teapot,' Street-Porter.
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Books (4), various books on porcelain. 'Newhall and Its Imitators,' Holgate; 'Denby porcelain,' Barrett/Thorpe; 'Caughley and Worcester Porcelains 1775-1,800,' Godden; and 'Bow porcelain,' Freeman.
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Books (5), various books on porcelain. 'Illustrated Guide to Ridgway Porcelains,' Godden; 'Illustrated Guide to Worcester porcelain,' Sandon; 'Worcester blue and white porcelain 1751-1790,' Branyan; 'Davenport pottery and porcelain 1894-1887,' Lockett; and 'Spode,' Whiter.
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Books (2), English Goldsmiths and British pottery. 'English Goldsmiths and Their marks,' Charles Jackson; and 'Encyclopaedia of British pottery and porcelain marks,' Geoffrey Godden.
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Books (5), various books on silver and pewter etc. 'Pewter through five hundred Years,' Christies; 'The book of snuff and snuff bottles,' Curtis; 'Masterpieces of cutlery and the Art of Eating,' V and a Museum; 'The History of silver,' Blair; and 'Objects of Vertu,' Ricketts.
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Books (3), Tiffany, Faberge and Lalique. 'Tiffany,' Potter/Jackson; 'Masterpieces from the house of Faberge,' Von Solodkoff; and 'The Art of Rene Lalique,' Bayer/Waller.
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Books (3), rugs, prints and Regency furniture. 'Oriental rugs,' Jacobsen; 'Prints for the Collector,' Hughes; and 'Regency furniture,' Collard.
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Book, 'Britten's old Clocks and Watches and their Makers,' Clutten. Pub. Methuen 1982.
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Books (7), various books on glass. 'English and Irish glass 1690-1840,' Ebbott collection; 'Phaidon Guide to glass,' Mehlman; 'An illustrated Dictionary of glass,' Newman; 'Investing in Georgian glass,' Lloyd; 'American glass,' Mc Kearin; 'art glass Nouveau,' Grover; and 'Carved and Decorated European art glass,' Grover.
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Books (2), various books on Chinese Ceramics. 'Chinese Ceramics by Hayashiya of Hasebe'. Pub. Tuttle & Co., 1966, original slipcase; and 'Chinese blue and white porcelain,' Duncan Macintosh, pub. David Charles, 1977.
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Books (3), various books on Weaponry. 'The Art of the Samurai,' 'Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure, 2008; ' the new Generation of Japanese Swordsmiths,' Tsuchiko, 2002; and 'A Glossary of the construction, decoration and Use of arms and armour,' stone, 1961.
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Book, Chinese jade of five centuries, by Joan M Hartman. Pub. Charles E Tuttle & Co., 1966.
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