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A RARE MUGHAL PLATE & MAIL COAT

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:700.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 1,700.00 USD
A RARE MUGHAL PLATE & MAIL COAT
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 650 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 a
Of high quality, likely an officer?s coat.Forged of heavy, riveted rings set with forged steel plates in the characteristic pattern, with applied, spearhead-shaped closures. Two of the plates bear short Mughal inscriptions on the reverse. First half of the 17th century.Overall length from nape to hem 120.4 cm.
Condition II