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A RARE PAIR OF CONTINENTAL ELBOW GAUNTLETS

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:900.00 USD Estimated At:1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD
A RARE PAIR OF CONTINENTAL ELBOW GAUNTLETS
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
With characteristic long cuffs, wrought to cover the elbow with roped and riveted borders, with four articulated plates and a well-embossed knuckle-plate, lamellar fingers riveted to strips leather and separately-applied articulated thumbs composed of three lames.First half of the 17th century or later. Leather possibly refreshed. Overall length 49 cm.
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