Presenting the wild and wonderful, this auction includes relics from ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine civilizations, alongside Medieval and Renaissance illuminated documents, King George II’s watch fob and George III’s hunting watch. The natural world is represented by Victorian taxidermy and a 300,000-year-old pre-glacial cross-section of Sitka spruce. Other highlights include travelling inkwell and pen sets, a collection of 18th and 19th-century clock and watchmakers tools and machines, painted British police truncheons, swords, and daggers.
