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ITEM 23743-W - ALDEBARAN RISING by Richard Upton Pickman PDF Print E-mail
Written by Kenneth Scroggins   
Wednesday, 12 July 2006

An oil portrait of an extremely old man in a bare wooden candlelit room. He is sitting in a rocking chair before a window open to a starry night sky, centered upon the constellation Taurus. The old man's back is to the viewer. Spilled across the ground next to him is a deck of tarot cards. The Fool and the Destroyed Tower are prominent, and there is a bloody knife impaling the Sun to the rotting floorboards.

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ITEM #62538-N PRESERVED HAND IN JAR, from Mexico, early 20th century PDF Print E-mail
Written by David Farnell   
Wednesday, 12 July 2006

A normal human hand, except for what appears to be a bullet hole through the palm. The hand floats in alcohol which, upon testing,proves to be laudanum. The jar is a large screw-top mason jar of a type made by Hero Glass Works of Philadelphia, Penn., in the mid-late 19th century, with the words "THE GEM" embossed on on the upper body. 

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ITEM #62592 - The `PRESPOS COITION' PDF Print E-mail
Written by WinstonP   
Wednesday, 12 July 2006

This is a leather-bound book of slightly larger than folio size (about 20" x 25") consisting mostly of etchings of a graphic sexual nature interspersed of descriptive text (in Italian).  The cover is unmarked but a frontpiece bears a handwritten title.  On the facing page is a bookplate stamped with the name Iacopo Castaigne (c1691-1728) and the Castaigne family crest.

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ITEM #95111-M - "THE BIRDCAGE" - SHADOW PROJECTING MACHINE PDF Print E-mail
Written by Davide Mana   
Tuesday, 11 July 2006

This item, originally bundled together with a more prosaic collection of watches, sundials and other time-pieces, looks like a complex three-dimensional contraption of brass rods, pulleys and wheels, including some simple human and animal shapes, the whole resembling a fifty centimeters high, thirty centimeters wide cylinder of "mutated clockwork wreckage" (the definition originally entered in the catalog when the Castaigne Collection was originally seized after the war).

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ITEM #101235-bb - Persian Hookah Bottle PDF Print E-mail
Written by Rob Lint   
Tuesday, 11 July 2006

Wrapped in a wool swedish army blanket is a disassembled Hookah/Narghile. The hookah bottle appears to be late 17th century Persian glass decorated on 2 sides with almost identical portraits of a seated man reading a book. These portraits are enclosed within painted vignettes. 

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ITEM #23156-J - Clef D'Antarktos PDF Print E-mail
Written by voormihunter   
Monday, 10 July 2006

A gold ring of considerable size. It would fit a very large hand. The ring has a flattened top, embossed with the following design: hexagonal snake seizing its tail in  its mouth. At each point of the hexagon the snake displays a dorsal spike so that the entire design somewhat resembles a six pointed star. 

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ITEM #46587-T(a) & ITEM #46587-T(b), ITEM #46587-D EXOTIC BLADES AND NOTE PDF Print E-mail
Written by Davide Mana   
Monday, 10 July 2006

Set of two 'kàrd' daggers, in steel and silver, from the Uzbek khanate of Khiva, circa 1750. Both daggers feature a single edge steel blade, 35 centimeters long, 5 centimeters at its widest, and exceedingly sharp. The grip of the each dagger is a "tower-shaped" silver cylinder, fifteen centimeters long, finely chiseled, topped by a crown-shaped pommel. Each dagger is encased by a silver conical scabbard that fits tightly with the hilt, turning each weapon into a 50 centimeters long silver sceptre. 

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ITEM #82934-T - Scriabin's "Mysterium" PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jay Dugger   
Monday, 10 July 2006

Several large bundles of hand-written papers--sheet music,choreographic instructions, color diagrams, costume designs, architectural drawings, early-20th century maps of the Himalayas, mechanical drawings for unusual equipment, etc. Mostly in Russian, although some few in English. Together these comprise a nearly complete collection of instructions for Alexander Scriabin's "Mysterium." 

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