COLLECTION OF CENTRAL ASIA BRONZE SEALS WITH ABSTRACT DESIGNS - WITH ORIGINAL REPORT BY PROF. LAMBER. Ca. 2100 - 1500 BC. A collection of three bronze stamp seals, including, from left to right: a small circular stamp seal with a flat face with a raised motif of three curving ribs arranged as a trident-like shape, the reverse forms a short handle terminating in a solid knob pierced through laterally; a stamp seal with a compartmented flat face, the solid back rises to a round pierced loop, the design is composed of a central circle with straight lines moving at three points to the rim, and three crescent lines with ends also reaching the rim; and a stamp seal with a round, flat face, the back rises steeply to a stalk handle, now broken off, with a secondary hole drilled sideways through the base of the stalk, the design is compartmented but is difficult to interpret, half of it resembles the front of a crab or insect, but the other half cannot be taken in that way. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 1978.261.2, 1978.261.1, 1983.535.151, 1983.535.52. Size: 16-20mm x 20-25mm; Weight: 45g Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.