China, a group of 6 bronze coin charms or amulets, 19th cent...

Hammer

£1,200

China, a group of 6 bronze coin charms or amulets, 19th century and various Thai (Siamese) porcelain gaming counters, including copies of two Wu Shi, both Mandel 1.3.9, four Wu Zhu, both M-1.9.5, 48mm, one M-1.9.9, 54mm (cracked) and 1.9.10, four Wu Xing, 2 M-1.12.4, M-1.12.10 and 1.12.53, two Yong Tong Wan Guo, M-1.13.4 and 1.13.43 four various Zhou Yuan Tong Bao and an oval AE Wu Zhu charm 43mm and hongmu Wu Zhu charm, 40mm, ranging from F-VF grade

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Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, coins and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale.



Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.