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Description: | Production Place: Persia; Date(s): 1800 - 1899; Classification(s): armour, Arm defence; Acquisition: bought, 1904 [TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS28]
Description: Of steel for the left arm, comprising a gutter-shaped plate rounded at the elbow, decorated with chevrons of floral ornament etched and in silver koftgari, and bands of Koranic verses round the border lined with red cotton and bordered with green and yellow tape, with two buckles and a strap loop at the lower edge and one buckle on the upper. The hand defence is of butted mail over thin leather. Two detached wrist plates joined by butted mail also survive. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | armour Arm defence | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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