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A RARE KHEVSUR SHIELD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:700.00 - 900.00 USD
A RARE KHEVSUR 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...
Of characteristic circular form, constructed of oxhide and bound with handwrought iron mounts, consisting of inner and outer rings, cross-straps, a rectangular center plate and domed boss. The reverse retains its original padding, grips and braided guige. Late 18th-early 19th century.Minor perforation 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 33.4 cm. Condition I