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A Very Rare Pair Of Russian Arm-Guards Of Caucasian Type For An Officer Of The Mountain Squadron Of Lifeguards
Tula, Circa 1840

27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Pair Of Russian Arm-Guards Of Caucasian Type For An Officer Of The Mountain Squadron Of Lifeguards
Tula, Circa 1840

Of steel, each shaped to the fore-arm and very slightly flared out at the wrist, the outer surface decorated with diagonal rows of line ornament over the wrists and lower half of reach fore-arm, the former each reinforced with a riveted steel border engraved with a bold design of arabesques against a wrigglework ground, the latter with three central steel studs and double line ornament, wrist-plates en suite and attached by riveted mail, two links of each guard stamped 'Jonov' in Russian, and with engraved mounts and buckles for straps (missing) (2)
30.5 cm. long

Footnotes

For a very similar pair of arm-guards formerly in the Marble Palace, St. Petersburg and now in the Hermitage (Inv. No. 3333), see Yurij A. Miller, Caucasian Arms from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 2000, p. 287, no. 190 (illustrated)

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