Superb old Eastern Highlands war shield with white ochre decoration, cane binding, cassowary feathers and incised lines.

An old Highlands war shield, the anterior surface decorated with pecked designs.

A Southern Highlands shield.

A Western Highlands war shield.

A Southern Highlands shield. Decorated in red, white and black trade paint with diamond design. Rope handle on reverse

An old Mendi war shield

An Indian bronze inkwell

Mesopotamian clay tablet and fragmentary envelope with cuneiform inscription

Islamic brass bowl with benedictory writing, such a bowl used to cure illness by drinking from it.

Fired clay ring with Northwest Semitic script

Islamic brass bowl with benedictory writing.

An Indian bronze inkwell

A large bronze ring set with a black hardstone bezel with a fine intaglio engraving of a unicorn facing an altar, with three signs from the Indus Valley script in the field.

Ethiopian Islamic writing board from a madrasa, with script in black ink.

A Ming Dynasty style lead and tin mirror shaped charm the front surface with the horoscope.

A Persian bronze inkwell with lid.