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Lot 76

A Turkish Shaffron
16th Century

6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Turkish Shaffron
16th Century

Of steel, shaped at the ears and narrowing inwards below the forehead to form the nose-defence, widening again and pointed at the nostrils and with medial ridge terminating in the centre of the forehead in an embossed T-shape above two embossed coma-shaped motifs, the edges pierced with small holes for lining (pitted overall)
48.8 cm.

Footnotes

For similar examples see George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor, 1934, p. 170, fig. 214, nos. 4, 6 and 9

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