- Also known as
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F A Turk
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primary name: Turk, F A
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other name: Frank A Turk
- Details
- individual; academic/intellectual; collector; British; Male
- Life dates
- -1998 or 1999
- Biography
- Collector. The British Museum (with funding from the British Museum Society) acquired his collection of East Asian amulets in August 1999. Author of several articles, including:
'A study of a porcelain netsuke', Apollo Magazine, June 1960.
'An unknown collection of Japanese art in Cornwall', The Connoisseur's Year Book, 1961.
'Sadahide and the Yokohama-e prints' (pre-1967).
'An unrecorded portrait of Hokusai' (pre-1967).
'The Japanese e-sen coins' (pre-1967)
'The Japanese e-sen coins', Il Giappone.
'Further note on the coin amulets of China', Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin 595, March 1968, pp.97-99.
'The identification of the source of the Sino-Christian medalets', Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin 614, October 1969, pp.347-349.
'A Chinese carved wood table screen', Spink's Numismatic Circular, October 1975.
'An unrecorded type of bronze mould for pu coins of the Wang Mang inter-regnum', Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin 704, April 1977, pp.132-134.
'Japanese objets d'art' (book pre 1970).
'Metal charms of East Asia'
'Lung Niu Hsiang: a category of Eastern Han dynasty ritual bronze types evolved into numismatic charms', East Asia Journal, post-1984.
- Bibliography
- Newsletter of the Oriental Numismatic Society, no.161, autumn 1999, p.2.
