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EACH 19TH CENTURY
Details
AN INDO-PERSIAN STEEL HELMET (KULAH KHUD) AND SHIELD (DHAL)
Each 19th Century
The first with central spike, adjustable nasal, and mail neck-guard of butted rings, the skull cut with typical decoration in low relief heightened with gold-damascening, and involving six circular medallions each containing a mounted sportsman, the lower border cut with silvered calligraphy; the shield en suite
11in. high (without neck-guard) and 18in. diam. (2)
Each 19th Century
The first with central spike, adjustable nasal, and mail neck-guard of butted rings, the skull cut with typical decoration in low relief heightened with gold-damascening, and involving six circular medallions each containing a mounted sportsman, the lower border cut with silvered calligraphy; the shield en suite
11in. high (without neck-guard) and 18in. diam. (2)
Provenance
Norm Flayderman, 1960