Lot of seven ethnographic objects · West, East and South Africa · ID: 3052379
Collection Mann, Leipzig, Germany (b)
Auktionshaus Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 19 April 1997, lot 82 (b)
Old German Colonial Collection (c)
Auktionshaus Zemanek-Münster, 8 July 2000, lot 326 (c)
Old German Colonial Collection (1917) (d)
Auktionshaus Zemanek-Münster, 8 July 2000, lot 703 (d)
August Bödiger, Bonn, 20 November 1992, lot 1430 (e)
August Bödiger, Bonn, 20 November 1992, lot 1430 (f)
Collection Mann, Leipzig, Germany (g)
Auktionshaus Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 1998 (g)
Elmar Wellenhöfer, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Description
a) speakers staff, wood, Akan, Ghana, h: 19 cm;
b) stone chips from “Cape Bianca”, West Africa, in a metal tin;
c) fan, old collection label “… fan from Lome (Togo)”, H: 35 cm;
d) wooden pipe from Tanzania, East Africa, with old collector’s label, l: 31 cm; e) tobacco lid with old handwritten collection label “southern Tanganyika”, East Africa, h: 16.5 cm;
f) “Kaffir gift bag” (according to label), East Africa, l: 26 cm;
g) pearl jewellery with cowrie shells, l: 40 cm, w: 15 cm
The object Lot of seven ethnographic objects with the object ID 3052379 was part of the auction Collectors’ Items Sale on September 24, 2025, lot number 84 at that time and is currently available for EUR 400 in Open sale.
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