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A RARE PERSIAN SAFAVID DYNASTY KULA KHUD HELMET

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD
A RARE PERSIAN SAFAVID DYNASTY KULA KHUD HELMET
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...
A very seldom encountered type. Of rounded-conical form showing evidence of Persian wootz forging, set with three plumeholders, an adjustable nasal with broad, heavily-gilded trefoil terminals and a pointed bulb finial. The whole inlaid in gold with birds amongst delicate flowering vines, and a broad band of religious inscriptions at the rim, including BISMILLAH AL RAHMAN AL RAHIM (Blessings of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate!) The peak likewise inscribed in gold with the owner’s name and genealogy, JANVAR VELI, EBNEH ALEH OMOREH, AJ AL HAMD MASSAH. Retains its original camail of riveted iron rings with geometrical patterns worked in riveted brass rings, with stepped and pointed termini. Beginning of the 17th century. Rust and very minor hole, mail with repairs. Height including camail 34.2 cm.
Condition III