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Lot 238*,W
A warabi yoroi armour Late Edo Period, 19th century
7 November 2013, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,125 inc. premium
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Late Edo Period, 19th century
A good quality child armour, the twelve-plate russet iron hoshibachi with a three lame shikoro gold-lacquered fukigaeshi with a black lacquer mon and a maedate of kuwagata on the front, a russet-iron menpo with a hair moustache, kosode russet-lacquered, the lower plate gilt, kote of russet-lacquered iron with an inset mon, a russet-lacquered yokohagido with the mon in gilt on the front, ikada haidate russet-lacquered with the mon in the centre of each shino suneate, laced overall in green sugakeodoshi; together with a paper tasselled saihai, contained in an armour box with a lacquered-wood stand.
A good quality child armour, the twelve-plate russet iron hoshibachi with a three lame shikoro gold-lacquered fukigaeshi with a black lacquer mon and a maedate of kuwagata on the front, a russet-iron menpo with a hair moustache, kosode russet-lacquered, the lower plate gilt, kote of russet-lacquered iron with an inset mon, a russet-lacquered yokohagido with the mon in gilt on the front, ikada haidate russet-lacquered with the mon in the centre of each shino suneate, laced overall in green sugakeodoshi; together with a paper tasselled saihai, contained in an armour box with a lacquered-wood stand.
























