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A FINE AFGHAN WARRIOR'S BELT

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 600.00 USD
A FINE AFGHAN WARRIOR'S BELT
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...
Rarely encountered, comprising a large, rectangular buckle and numerous mounts, all of solid silver, profiled, engraved and nielloed en suite, with two pairs of pouches, mounted on a broad leather waistband with shoulder-strap mounted en suite. Second half of the 19th century.Bukhara work for an Afghan client.Based upon the belt designed by Captain Sam Browne, 2nd Punjab Irregular Cavalry, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Captain Browne lost an arm charging a cannon position in 1858, for which he received the Victoria Cross. To compensate for this disability, he later added a shoulder strap to his belt, which allowed him to draw his saber with one hand. The Sam Browne belt, as it became known, was adopted by the British military soon after. It also gaining immediate popularity with tribesmen who were exposed to its use during the Afghan Wars.Overall length 92 cm. Condition I