China, 13 cast bronze charms or amulets, Qing dynasty, six o...

Hammer

£3,000

China, 13 cast bronze charms or amulets, Qing dynasty, six obv. eight characters, rev. pictorial, 44-46mm, one cracked otherwise F-good F, two obv. pictorial, rev. pictorial with four characters, 44mm, F and 45mm, VF, two obv. eight characters, rev. pictorial with four characters, both 44mm and VF, two obv. multiple characters, rev. pictorial with four characters, both 40mm, good F, and the last obv. two deer and two 'coins', rev. plain, rim fault at 1 o'clock otherwise VF, 42mm

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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.