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A CONTINENTAL CUIRASSIER BREASTPLATE

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 250.00 USD
A CONTINENTAL CUIRASSIER BREASTPLATE
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
Probably French, for use in the field.Of steel, bordered in large, brass studs with a number of painted collection numbers to the interior.Deaccessioned from the John Woodman Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA.Acquired March 3, 1927 by John W. Higgins from Anderson Galleries, N.Y. as lot 670, from the collection of the Archduke Eugen's Armory at Fortress Hohenwerfen, Salzburg, Austria. 19th century. Light wear, some studs lacking. Height 49.4 cm. Condition III