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A MUGHAL TOP HELMET

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A MUGHAL TOP HELMET
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...
A fine example, the steel bowl of segmented form, the nasal with elaborately-profiled finials, and set with three plume tubes. Elaborately inlaid overall in delicate panels of flowering silver and gold vinework, the long camail covering the brow and falling in four acute points at the sides and back.First half of the 19th century.Height including camail 57.9 cm. Condition I