Of Oceanic interest - A previously unrecorded and rare Polynesian pole or spear club, Momore Akatara, Rarotongan/Atui, Cook Islands, toa (ironwood), the slender shaft with stone carved splayed head with serrated scalloped edge and carved pommel end, well balance and with deep patination, probably late 18th/early 19th century, 215 cm long, the head 8 cm at its widest Note: The vendor's family purchased Nocton Hall, Lincolnshire in 1889 from George Robinson, 1st Marquis of Ripon, and thence by descent