The Manuscript and Collectibles Sale

Cast tapered blade with reinforced back, and heavy squarish midrib and tang. Intact and well preserved, with black to green patina, with slight earth

Neatly fashioned lanceolate blade with long rat-tail tang, with thick midrib, and reinforced tip. The edges well sharpened in antiquity; the whole ni

Cast and wrought, the blade long and tapered, with very high midrib, swelling, rounded shoulders, and a thinner sheet socket. Chased decoration of ha

Vessel tapered, with rounded conical body, having small flat base and inward turning rim. Red-brown burnished exterior surface with black collared ri

Earliest a small cosmetic jar, well crafted in serpentine, of distinctive shape. Much later, a boldly molded faience dish, with wide shelf-like rim,

Earliest a Ramessid scarab in beautifully glazed steatite. The insect fine and naturalistic; the base showing the king holding hands with Horus and A

Faience ushabti of usual simplified mummiform shape, with arms crossed, in a thick blue glaze, now faded in areas. Details of a headband, two picks,

With polychrome-painted gesso over wood, the woman with huge blue and yellow lappet wig, the ends tied by colorful "jeweled bands."...

From a quality anthropoid coffin, the bronze eyebrows are nicely stylized; the bronze outlines of the eyes with extended cosmetic lines, the integral

Likely from a high-quality anthropoid coffin, or perhaps a life-size wood figure. The bronze outlines of the eyes with extended cosmetic lines -- the