Selections from the Petite Museum of Hadji Baba

CNG 103, Lot: 1263. Estimate $250. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Crystal and carnelian beads. Near Eastern, 6th-3rd centuries BC. Two circular crystal and three lentoid carnelian beads. Each pierced, the smaller of the two crystal beads with remnants of gold jewelry in channel. Diameters: 9-19mm. Some scattered chips.

Ex Petite Museum of Hadji Baba, Old City, Jerusalem.

The ‘Petite Museum of Hadji Baba’ was an old antiquities shop operating for decades along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem’s Old City.