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THE HEIRS OF THE BILLY BRANCH COLLECTION ARE NOW INVITING OFFERS!!!

With the imminent distribution of proceeds from the sales of items in the Billy Branch estate, the heirs
are inviting offers. Though already heavily discounted, the family has asked that I note its willingness to
consider any offer for a listed item in the Branch collection: Pre-Columbian art pottery; unique Native American
pawn pieces; Chinese zoomorphic cloisonnee forms; and a variety of other special collectibles. Bill had a good
eye, and this opportunity to purchase a fine piece at your price is seldom seen. To see all items in the Branch
collection, simply type the letters 'BB' into the search link on any page and all of Bill's listings will come up.

SHELL INLAID WOOD EAR PLUGS, MOCHE, PERU Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 726389 (stock# LFG.442)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $1500.00  This incredibly well preserved set of Pre-Columbian wood ear plugs (LFG442), on which the geometrically decorated shell and dark greenstone elements are each held in place with an almost invisible touch of contemporary glue, is attributed to the Moche horizon of Peru, c.100-800AD. Not wearable today due to the fragile nature of the wood that has dried and shrunk through the many centuries of entombment, there are certainly few other such pairs that have survived this well. Measuring one inch fro ...click for details

PRE-COLUMBIAN TEXTILE BAG, NAZCA Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 338513 (stock# 100.255ARH)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $450.00  Either used to hold tools of various sorts, or perhaps coca leaves, this large dark but vari-colored bag (100.255ARHD) is attributed to the Nazca horizon of Peru, c.100-800AD. In only fair condition with significant stain and a fair amount of fabric material loss and pulling, the approximately 12” x 15” bag (counting the fringe) is still a displayable type piece for style, color, and pattern. From the Gunnulf Bjorkman collection, it comes in a deep 14” x 20” glass-fronted frame along with a biog ...click for details

TWELVE SHELL ARTIFACTS, WEST MEXICO: GROUP B Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 627154 (stock# LLL.SHELL2)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 SEE EACH PHOTO FOR PRICE  This group of twelve Pre-Columbian shell artifacts (LLL731R2N2F&I, LLL732R2N1C, 845B, 846C, 864F, 920C, 927D, 928J, 980 and 1206D&E) was assembled from finds made by the late Lynn Langdon in West Mexico in the mid-2oth century. Included in the group are individual pieces and lots, each shown and priced on its own photo. Finger rings, pendants, zoomormorphic pendants, pectorals, beads, etc., are among the pictured items. Grades range from 5-10 (with ten being the top) and prices range fro ...click for details

TIAHUANACAN BASKET FROM BOLIVIAN HIGHLANDS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 727876 (stock# LFG.458)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $900.00  Decorated with dark brown, almost black wraps of grass spaced geometrically along its rim and in its body, this old highlands basket (LFG458) is attributed to the Tiahuanacan cultural period of Bolivia, c.400-1200AD. In overall good condition, though darkened and slightly out-of-round due to desiccation and age, a few areas along the rim of the 7” long basket have lost the grass loops exposing the bundled fiber coil. In addition to a few small areas along the sides of the basket where similar lo ...click for details

PRE-COLUMBIAN WOVEN SASH WITH BIRDS, CHIMU Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 332710 (stock# 100.255APH)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $500.00  This woven textile is well over 60” in length, and must have been used as a sash. Measuring 7 ½” in width at its colorful center where a 9” wide panel of birds can be seen, the textile (100.255APHD) is in overall fairly good condition, except for the two colored textile ends. The colored end panel on the right in the photo, only in fair condition, appears to have been added as an ancient repair, as the size of the panel is smaller and its pattern different from that of the one on the left, which ...click for details

LARGE TEXTILE FRAGMENT WITH BIRDS, CHANCAY Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 359712 (stock# FP.1366B)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $900.00  This approximately 15” x 26” rectangular textile fragment (FP1366B) is attributed to the Chancay horizon of Peru dating c.1100-1400AD. In fair to very good condition, depending upon which part of the fabric you’re viewing, the eight bordered panels making up the fragment are each centered with a fan-tailed bird that may represent a pelican, or some other shore bird. The textile is sewn onto brown paper backing. Moderate staining, some fabric loss, and discoloration in the upper left quadrant are ...click for details

TWELVE SHELL ARTIFACTS, WEST MEXICO: GROUP A Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 552358 (stock# LLL.SHELL1)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 SEE EACH PHOTO FOR PRICE  The twelve Precolumbian shell artifacts in this group of twelve (LLL732R2N1B & D, R2N2B & H, 838L, 845, 846A & G, 864B, 920E, 922 and 1206F) were all found in the Nayarit area of West Mexico by the late Lynn Langdon in the mid-20th century. Included in this interesting and varied group are: ear decorations, a ring, figural pendants, pectorals, a bat’s head bracelet, atlatl finger grips, etc. As you’d expect, condition ranges from fairly good to excellent, and some of the shell has li ...click for details

TWELVE POTTERY HEADS: HEFLIN, CARD GROUP H Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 581370 (stock# AXH.CARD H)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 SEE EACH PHOTO FOR PRICE  Aside for the overall quality and frequent uniqueness of the artifacts and relics from the Dr. Allen Heflin collection, it’s difficult not to to rank its next most important feature as the extreme care practiced by Heflin in documenting the provenance of almost every one of his approximately 10,000 treasured items. Not all of them were large, or impressive, or complete, or of museum quality, and many were simply the fragments and parts from ritually broken offerings to ancient gods, or pieces re ...click for details

TWELVE PRE-COLUMBIAN TEXTILES FROM PERU Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 472220 (stock# PC.TXTILE)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 SEE EACH PHOTO FOR PRICE  This group of twelve, individually priced textiles (99.96C, E, G & HHD; 99.170HD; 99.174BHD; 100.255BB, BM, IR1, IR2, & ITHD; and 104.2HD), are all colorful fragments from mostly Pre-Columbian mantas, ponchos, belts, etc. Included are 11 Pre-Columbian textiles from the Nazca, Chimu, and Chancay horizons of Peru, and one woven belt from Peru that is probably Colonial in age. If you are either a collector of either Pre-Columbian art or old textiles, you should review this group for the opp ...click for details

ANOTHER INTERESTING ORLANDINI MUSEUM NECKLACE Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork: Pre 1492   item# 726668 (stock# LFG.249)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $600.00  From the same consigned collection that our other Orlandini Museum pieces are from, this interesting Pre-Columbian necklace (LFG249) was assembled from many @ 3mm long fired clay tube beads, ten individually hand modeled anthropomorphic figural clay bead-pendants, and a 1 ¾” long, slightly tapered and nicely preserved mother-of-pearl central pendant. All in excellent condition, but not wearable without restringing due to the age of the beading string (50 years + or -), the figural beads are repr ...click for details

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