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A RARE GEORGIAN SHIELD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 USD
A RARE GEORGIAN SHIELD
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...
Carried by the Khevsur mountaineers, of circular form, constructed of oxhide and bound with handwrought iron mounts, consisting of an outer ring, cross-straps, a rectangular center plate with domed boss and four bud-shaped reinforces. The reverse retains its original grips and remains of braided guige. Late 18th-early 19th century. Minor perforations to oxhide. See Y. Miller, Caucasian Arms from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen: Naestved, 2000, p. 46, plate 4 for quite similar. Diameter 34 cm.
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