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AN OTTOMAN KALKAN SHIELD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 USD
AN OTTOMAN KALKAN 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...
A rare example, wrought in steel and superbly chiseled at the center in flowering vines issuing from vases, together with five circular cartouches, the central one inscribed ALLAH, ALI, TUKLAT! The periphery chiseled with a continuous series of rectangular panels, lacquered deep red, with the border executed in a repeating leaf pattern. Mounted with four steel bosses with remains of gilding, the reverse with fabric grips and lining intact .Late 18th ' early 19th century.Diameter 30.2 cm. Condition I