Beautiful Antique African Tribal Mask "FOUR HORNED RAM

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Beautiful Antique African Tribal Mask "FOUR HORNED RAM

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Sold Date: 08/30/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

This Antique 4-Horned Ram is an all around favorite in our office!!

With Only 3 More Masks Left to be Sold From this Estate we are announcing that the next mask to be listed, the unique wood and brass elephant mask #50, will be started at an impossibly low starting bid price of 1 penny!

(Then we start with the fetishes and icons and the roughly 17 framed and mounted antique maps and the vintage books & records from this same estate)

Approximate dimensions of this massive Buck or Ram's Head is: 23¼" tall x 8" wide x 4" front to back. A most remarkable and uniquely designed and carved mask stained in multi tones. Fantastic artistic sculpting and finish. Sturdy mask despite extreme age, just don't lift by smaller horns as we may have detected a tiny hairline fracture . Has many holes bored through towards rear of mask for the mounting of raffia or attachment of various costumes or accesories. See below for background info on item and previous owner.

This stuning ceremonial or ritual mask is from the lifelong collection of Professor Dr. Samuel Klayman. Professor Sam Klayman, whose lonely & tragic life ended this past winter as a lonely old man, was a long time collector of authentic African ritual items and voodoo & witchcraft pieces. Even the furniture of his apartment was in the majority rough handcrafted collection pieces from Africa. Every wall in his home was covered from the cieling till midway to the floor with hundreds of ritual masks, icons and figures some with perhaps erotic conotations. Along with these masks he collected an extensive amount of authoratative books on this subject as well as thousands of first print science fiction and horor novels. He had a great many ancient maps mounted in frames which we will be posting once we finish selling the many masks from his estate. All masks that we are now selling are exclusively from Doctor Klayman's private collection. Doctor Klayman of Quentin Rd and Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn, NY spent a large amount of his life in this final residence of his and given his lifelong handicap and reclusive manner he persued his hobby with great passion and we are perpetuating his love for these artifacts by selling them in the hope that they will be preserved by new owners who value these items as he so lovingly did. We hope to add more of his collection to ebay in the next few weeks and will indicate that they are from this exclusive collection. Please note that we are in posession of the entire collection at this time and have exclusive access to the vast majority of the estate. Only one mask was held by another individual who sold it a while back on ebay without disclosing its origin. We will endeavor to give as much information as to the history of the masks as well as the owner's bios. The interior carving or hollowing is obviously indicative of exclusive hand carving & with perhaps primitive tools. While the doctor posessed a large collection of ancient coins and stamps the entire collection was stolen immediately after his demise and efforts to recover them were futile. Please be aware that due to the fact that we deal almost exclusively with prestigious estates with a variety of collections we cannot profess to being any type of authority on these items and cannot guarantee authenticity of estate's claims of age or origin though we have done substantial research in the matter. Likewise, due to the nature of estate products, we are not responsible for overlooking or omiting details and flaws we may not of noticed upon our inspection of item(s) prior to posting or sale.

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