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Beautiful Anthropomorphic Vessel (Peru?)

Vessel in form of woman carrying basket. Moche?

18th c. Sip using silverpoint technique on parchment. http://www.silverpointweb.com/

Pre-Columbian Engraved Stone Spindle Whorls

Grim Reality: Original Certificate Selling Female Slave And Her Seven Children For $800. From Key West Florida, Pre-Civil War.

Olmec Figurines Collection, Jade and Other Stone

Watercolour Signed By Artist Waldo Peirce http://www.lirosgallery.com/peircehome.html

The Tea-Tax Tempest – or Old time with his Magick-Lanthern [sic]. [1783]; Pubd March 12, 1783 by W. Humphreys. [sic] No 227 Strand, (27 x 38 cm) Engraving featuring the figure of Father Time projecting a scene onto a curtain using a lantern mounted on a globe. In front and watching the scene...

Eagle head carved from petrified wood. Likely from Meso-America or Mexico. For some reason, it is upside down in this photo.

These are objects from the Americas.  
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