Single Owner Online Auction (Sale #290)

Pre-Columbian Figurine and Fragment Assortment

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Start price: $250

Estimated price: $500 - $700

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Pre-Columbian Figurine and Fragment Assortment

(20) items including a larger head having a label reading ‘Tula Hidalgo’; a Colima flat figurine; Colima and West Mexico items and a Tumaco-La Tolita figurine

Provenance: The Estate of George ‘Yorgo’ Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1965-2000

Property from: a Kalamazoo, Michigan estate

Height: 6 inches, Width: 5 1/4 inches, Depth: 2 1/4 inches (large head)

Condition: Good, overall light to heavy wear consistent with normal use; some items fragmentary; Colima flat having repairs to both arms; losses to (3) limbs of Tumaco-La Tolita; occasional chips

Disclaimers: please note: this lot came from a house that had been closed for some time and a musty odor may be present

Category: Decorative Arts > Ethnographic

Estimated Sale Time: 4:47 pm CST

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Sales Tax: California (7.25%), Florida (6%), Georgia (8.5%), Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), New Mexico (5.125%), New York (8.875%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%)

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Last modified: June 2, 2022, 1:18 pm

Condition: Good, overall light to heavy wear consistent with normal use; some items fragmentary; Colima flat having repairs to both arms; losses to (3) limbs of Tumaco-La Tolita; occasional chips

Dimensions: 6 x 5.25 x 2.25 in