Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/630
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    139/340 (page 49)
    - 5, TE : aE ELE TE : 709 A fine Necklace of thirty-three amber Beads, found in the peat Si between Craigbilly and Connor; and sixteen odd amber Beads, oS all probably of the Viking period, very rare, on card 49 _— (6sf-n10| A card containing a number of odd amber Beads and eae ay Ne found in the north of Ireland, also of the Viking period 2 Slof- A GY) &, Cy A curious wooden Pendant with incised symbols; and eleven “ dumb-bell ” shaped Beads ; from the Buick collection, oncard 12 GhPé._sieay A card containing forty-nine “dumb-bell” Beads ; found in ae , fi * Shp Jie ; Irish L peat and on Crannogs rein A series of eighteen similar Beads ; found in Co. Antrim ; oncard 18 JSftif- X ‘oe 14 | An interesting series of whorl-shaped glass Beads, chiefly of ares Gf- V3 fH aa 02 colour ; found in the peat bogs and island sites; on card OMf- / & (sy A cruciform stone Bead; and forty-one roughly shaped Beads and 1» SAF LA. MLE <n ESTOS. Pendants, on two cards GOL716 ( A string of thirty-nine glass Beads, chiefly of amber colour, but a (Z DP A few of them decorated with wavy lines in white Sfp fey (ef-7174 Three strings of glass Beads, many of them decorated, and chiefly “sf IP fre 56 of an early period (2f-118| A string of sixty Beads and Pendants, many of them eee 3 3 7- 47 ot and chiefly of an early period IS/_719| Three strings of varied stone and glass Beads and Whorls 67 S5/- hayes _Z_720/ Three fine jet Armlets; and fifteen Whorls and Rings of jet and $/5f- (Lele? stone, some of them probably of Roman manufacture and per oe relics of an early Viking raid 4A-G21] A very important jet Armlet, the outer surface strongly ribbed, | Sy L/h bin. diam.; found at Knocklayd, Co. Antrim Tle 722 | Eight vitreous paste Beads, with ribbed sides, of the -Roman ee Ae rare; four early faience quoit-shaped Beads, also rare; and seventeen stone Beads, of varied form; all Oo. Antrim; on card 29 723 Astring of old Irish “ blackberry ” Beads, in glass, of varied colours, oy on card pa ee OES 15 /- is Ly (2) A series of stone Beads and Pendants, of various periods, on three © Sif Chl cards 725 Twenty-one tiny stone Beads ; found on the sandhills at Portstewart, very rare 21 D