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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian Indigenous & Oceanic Art
• Sale Date:
  21 Jul 2015 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  23
• Lot Description:
  An Early Narrow Shield
  South East Australia (mid nineteenth century)
  carved wood
  79.5 cm high
• Provenance:
  William Ockelford Oldman, London; The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worchester (cat. no. 1573)(acquired from above 1 May 1931); The John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, Thomas Del Mar Auctions, London, 20 March 2013, lot 54; Private Collection, Sydney (acquired from above). This shield is sold with copies of the original signed and dated Oldman invoices.
• Notes:
  William Ockelford Oldman (24 August 1879 - 30 June 1949) was a British collector and dealer of ethnographic art and European arms and armour. His business W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London was mostly active between the late 1890s and 1913. Oldman purchased collections from various sources including items that were considered surplus from many small British museums. He produced a series of auction catalogues between 1901 and 1913 that were well illustrated with photographs and remain an important reference for collectors, subject experts and museums to this day. In addition to holding auctions he also reserved items for possible sale to private collectors and scholars. He maintained frequent correspondence with his network of collectors and he was often visited by museum professionals and scholars from institutions around the world. Oldman continued to deal in artefacts after 1913 but ceased to arrange auctions. Instead he sent out artefact lists to his contacts. These were also illustrated with photographs and were issued on a bi-weekly or monthly basis.
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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