Telyt 6/80cm prototype ex Leitz Museum

An extremely rare and highly sophisticated clockwork motor, designed after WWII by the Leitz engineer and Head of Camera Research Willi Wiesner as a replacement for MOOLY. This prototype's most distin

3-cam lens with prototype serial number, in near mint condition, clean optics, 12508 hood and plastic keeper, provenance: ex Leitz employee The buyers premium for all items exported out of E.C. (Europ

prototype Elmarit-R, 2-cam with built-in hood, made in Canada, engraved with prototype serial number, ex ELCAN inventory (formula 289), one of 5 prototypes produced The buyers premium for all items ex

A Rare Goerz-Dagor Lens Made By Zeiss, In Excellent Condition, With Clean Optics, In Working Compur Shutter, Ex Carl Zeiss Jena Museum, With Special Leather Cap Hand - Inscribed: 'Objektiv Sammlung Nr

Pre-Columbian, southeastern Mexico, Chontal, ca. 800 to 300 BCE. Huge greenstone standing "blind" figure showing very strong Olmec chacteristics, but clearly Chontal from the Guerrero region. He stand

Chinese School, ancestral portrait, ex Museum, Ming Dynasty (17th c.), Official's Wife, colors on silk mounted to paper, depicted in robes decorated with leaf design, and elaborately embellished sash,

A haunting Vintage Shrunken Head. South American, early twentieth century. Displayed at the Metamora Museum Of Oddities as an authentic shrunken head, but is more likely an excellent vintage facsimile

Bulul, also known as bul-ul or tinagtaggu, is a carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao peoples of northern Luzon. The sculptures are highly stylized representations of ancestor

New Kingdom, 1550 - 1077 BC, Ancient Egyptian wood carving. Polychrome painted detailing. The back side with museum deaccession / archive numbers. Measures 14" x 4" x 3.5" deep.Ex Museum, Private Cali

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a gorgeous piece that exemplifies many of the classic hallmarks of the Nazca people's distinctive pottery. This is a polychro

Chinese embroidered silk skirt and coat, ex museum, 19th/20th c., skirt of two overlapping pleated panels of peach silk damask embroidered with shades of blue, gold highlights, dark green animal figur

A haunting Vintage Shrunken Head. South American, early twentieth century. Displayed at the Metamora Museum Of Oddities as an authentic shrunken head, but is more likely an excellent vintage facsimile

Egypt, Third Intermediate period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1070 to 945 BCE. An impressive wooden ushabti made for the Chantress of Amun Henettawy or Henuttawi (cf. Lieblein, 2544, nos. 64 and 136) painted wi

This rare pipe is a excellent example of the style, classically represents a stylized character, the abdomen swollen by the obliquely cut bowl, The round head, enlarged by the hemispherical ears, offe

This is a very old and impressive wooden mask from the Toma peoples of Guinea, Sierra leone and even into Liberia, West Africa. Carved wooden mask with hand hammered metal work designs and three large

Pre-Columbian Olmec stone jaguar mask from Mexico, ca. 900-600 BCE. This mask came from the collection of the Wolfs museum that burned down in Florida in 2019. The mask was caught in the fire and has

Southeast Asia, Thailand, ca. late 18th to 19th century CE. A fine copper alloy Buddha seated in lotus position upon a triangular pedestal and wearing a robe that drapes over his left shoulder. He pla

ITEM: Ring fragment, Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamens queen MATERIAL: Faience CULTURE: Egyptian PERIOD: Amarna period, 1330 B.C DIMENSIONS: 20 mm x 12 mm CONDITION: Good condition, fragmentary and re

**First Time At Auction** Southeast Asia, Thailand, Rattanakosin Period, ca. 19th century CE. A splendid brass Buddha seated in lotus position atop a tiered, triangular plinth enveloped in a lustrous

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An impressive hand-made pottery reclinatario with one side in the form an abstract zoomorph, perhaps a dolphin, a fish, or a bird, with a hug

A very fine Old initiation mask from the Southern Bushoong/Kete peoples of the DRC/ Congo, central Africa. A very interesting example that still retains its original painted designs, often these masks

An antique hand carved and painted clown figure on swing, with a plastic head and remains of human hair. This Clown toy measures 13 inches tall x 9 inches wide and was part of the permanent display at

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 700 CE. A little bit terrifying - and also a little bit comical - example of one of the classic forms of pre-Columbian pottery - the Moche

A carved wooden antique tablet, likely 20th century Rapa Nui Rongorongo style wooden tablet from Easter island. Likely an early tourist carving, this carved wooden tablet was on permanent display in t