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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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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."