Sales catalogue: Glendining

Date:: 1-2 October 1934

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/8/199

Credit: Sales catalogue: Glendining. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$166 One hundred old wooden lace bobbins 10 3 C16Z/ Very a old bronze headed religious processional i — — sta 168 Old ballot box 169 Bronze temple bell brought from the East by Lady fee ne during the voyage of the Sunbeam, in 120 Three battle axes, from the Orissian Hill Tribes rf 171/ Suit of old Mahratta, very finely rivetted armour, i ————_/ with helmet, on stand 472, Very old Indian bow of sinew and horn, and a a bundle of arrows 1583 Matchlock gun, beautifully decorated 174 Two horseman’s lances, with lac shafts and heads ornamented with gold, curious butts Lg, / d75p Heavy elephant glaive and spear, with silver work, (oh 7 fs both taken from the old Tanjore Armoury f- os ; ‘A he , ) & Gze) Two spear-like weapons, from the Armoury of the i] Begain Samroo at Sirdhana, near Meerut To 177 | Old Saracenic helmet with fluted conical crown, late _/ + 15th century // 178 New Zealand chief’s adze, formerly carried as a sign of a6 : rank and used chiefly for killing slaves. The blade is finely formed, but of poor colour, possibly © caused by fire; short hard darkwood handle elaborately. carved at head, and with a head on the butt, bound on with plaited sinnet a These old specimens are extremely rare and were -handed down as heirlooms among the tribe ~ ae 5 2 s %| lL j : e : ; f SP E 4 \ ; f : } A ( (. * 6 - 59 SZ Eo mevicat Engravings, i79) Le Petit Glouton; The Dutch Chymist Human Ills and Miseries, a panorama of 28 early and curious scenes, in colours, with text$

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