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A RARE MUGHAL PLATE & MAIL COAT

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD
A RARE MUGHAL PLATE & MAIL COAT
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...
Quality work, likely an officer’s coat. Wrought in alternating rows of heavy riveted rings and solid rings with forged steel plates at the front and sides, and three rows of overlapping plates at the back. With profiled clasps and a Devanagari inscription to the front. First half of the 17th century. Overall length from nape to hem 108 cm.
Condition II