China, a group of 17 bronze or copper inscribed charms or am...

Hammer

£3,800

China, a group of 17 bronze or copper inscribed charms or amulets, Qing dynasty, nine with inscriptions to one side only, the largest inscribed Tian Xia Tai Ping, 65mm, two inscribed to each side, 42mm and six with pictorial designs to the reverse, 24-65mm, VG to VF

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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.