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COSTA RICAN JADE AXE GOD CELT Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 565615 (stock# VPW.1)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $1650.00  Measuring 5 1/8” in height, this perforated axe god celt (VPW1) is attributed to the Guanacaste-Nicoya region of Costa Rica and is dated c.300BC-500AD. Determined to be jadeite through a specific gravity test result of 3.31 and a spot refractive index of 1.66, the light green, front-polished beauty is from a private, northeastern collection. Purchased by my consigner from Howard Rose’s Arte Primitivo Gallery in New York City in June 2001, the celt is in overall very good condition with only a fe ...click for details

ZOOMORPHIC HEAD FROM EFFIGY AXE, WEST MEXICO Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 397735 (stock# LLL.0785)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $225.00  This stone animal head (LLL785), apparently fashioned to represent a tapir, was once at the back or poll end of a fine effigy axe. Broken across the shallow hafting groove that encircled the axe, the head has no other significant damage and by itself is a good example of the skilled Pre-Columbian stone-worker’s art. Measuring 2 ¾” in length, and 1 5/8” in height at the head, the axe is attributed to the Colima horizon of west Mexico dating c.300BC-200AD. Made from grayish green volcanic rock, th ...click for details

TWELVE STONE RELICS FROM MEXICO: GROUP E Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 552228 (stock# PC.STONE.E)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 SEE EACH PHOTO FOR PRICE  Here are twelve more Precolumbian stone items (TEH.F5.2-4, F5.6, F5.10, F5.11, F5.14, F5.16, F10.3, F10.5, F10.8 and F10.14) taken from a couple of frames assembled by the late Chester Howard, founder of the Colorado Mineral Society in the 1930s. A variable group that includes figures, beads, pendants, a celt, ear flare, and more, most of the pieces are in excellent intact condition. From west coast to east coast, the photos picture a fine variety. Each photo shows the front of the artifact(s), ...click for details

PRE-COLUMBIAN ¾ GROOVED AXE, WEST MEXICO Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 411468 (stock# LLL.0790)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $150.00  This 3 ¾” long, ¾-grooved greenstone axe (LLL790) was found in west Mexico in the mid-20th century by the late Lynn Langdon. Attributed to the Colima horizon, c.300BC-200AD, the axe is in overall very good condition with a few small usage chips and some pitting and abrasion on its moderately polished surface. The axe comes with a small display card, a brief write-up about Langdon, a map of Mexico on which is highlighted the Colima area, and a certificate guaranteeing authenticity.

TWELVE MORE MIXTEC PENATE PENDANTS: EX HOWARD Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 461178 (stock# PENATES.B)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 SORRY...ALL OF THESE ITEMS HAVE SOLD.  Here are twelve more individually priced Pre-Columbian stone figural pendants, known as ‘penates’ for their prayer-like pose, taken from a frame assembled by the late Chester Howard. Howard, founder of the Colorado Mineralogical Society in 1936, collected the penates in Mexico in the mid-20th century. The pieces in this group (TEH.F51.2, 8, 10, 19, 23, 25, 29, 33, 37, 40, 43 and 49), worn for protective purpose in Pre-Columbian days, include one stylized owl pendant. From Mitla and attributed to ...click for details

PRE-COLUMBIAN POLISHED GREENSTONE PENDANT Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 335114 (stock# LLL.0838J)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $125.00  This 1 ¼” long perforated and polished greenstone pendant (LLL838J) is from the estate of the late Lynn Langdon. Found in west Mexico in the mid-20th century, the pendant is flat on one side, and curved on the other. An unfinished hole at one end may represent an eye, but more likely a suspension hole never completed. With the shaped of a tooth or claw, it was most likely used as a protective amulet. Attributed to the Nayarit, it is thought to date c.300BC-1000AD. The pendant comes with a small ...click for details

COLORFUL PRE-COLUMBIAN CELT, WEST MEXICO Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 411469 (stock# LLL.0782)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $175.00  This polished, dark greenish black basalt, Precolumbian petaloid celt, or ungrooved axe (LLL782) is 2 7/8” long and ¾” thick. Brightened with large patches of an ivory colored and slightly fibrous included mineral, its finished surface is attractively different than most of its type. In overall fairly good condition with a usage chunk out of one corner along its bit edge, the late Lynn Langdon found the celt in the Nayarit area of west Mexico in the mid-20th century. It is dated c.300BC-1300AD a ...click for details

TWELVE MORE WEST MEXICAN STONE RELICS: GROUP 4 Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 693028 (stock# LLL.STONE4)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 SEE EACH PHOTO FOR PRICE  This group of twelve stone relics and lots (LLL731R3N2B; 753M; 845U, W and X; 919; 986C; 1203C; 1209C & D; 1211E and 1214i) is made up of pieces found in the Shaft Tomb area of West Mexico during the mid-20th century by the late Lynn Langdon. Dating c.300BC-1300AD, except for one quartz figurine that is probably a replica, the stone types included are: obsidian, quartz, serpentine, greenstone, argillite, volcaniclastics, and hematite. The objects formed from those stones include pendants, wh ...click for details

TWELVE MEZCALA STONE AND SHELL ARTIFACTS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 461991 (stock# TEH.MEZCAL)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 SEE EACH PHOTO FOR PRICE  All twelve of the stone and shell Pre-Columbian artifacts individually illustrated and priced in this group (TEH.F47.1-11 and TEH.F50.3) were taken out of a shadow-box frame assembled by the late Chester Howard, founder of the Colorado Mineral Society. Howard marked the frame with the word ‘Guerrero’. Included in the group are Mezcala anthropomorphic stone figures, a couple of shell pieces of jewelry (these may be Colima in origin), and three individual greenstone ear flares. Each photo first sh ...click for details

PRE-COLUMBIAN BIRD HEAD BLADE HOLDER PENDANT Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre 1492   item# 335811 (stock# LLL.0732R2)  click for details HD ENTERPRISES, INC. 303-695-1301 $125.00  This oddly shaped Pre-Columbian bird’s head pendant (LLL732R2N2B), made from a creamy-gray colored stone and with a crescent groove ground into its basal edge, may have held a metal or obsidian blade in the groove. Not a common style, and in overall very good condition, it measures 1 3/8” from tip to tip. Completely perforated for suspension at one end, there is an uncompleted hole at the other. Found in west Mexico in the mid-20th century by the late Lynn Langdon, this curious and rather rare t ...click for details

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