A group of Egyptian stone and turquoise glazed faience amulets, beads and fragments, late Kingdom to Roman period, some pieces with old labels for items collected in late 19th or early 20th century, together with a painted wood and gesso head fragment, post Pharaonic, 8.5cm, individual tesserae from Byzantine mosaics mounted on card and collected in 1863-4, Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke CONDITION: Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Antiquities and Asian works of art, principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with local archaeological digs undertaken by the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.