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A Rare Polish Hussar's Turban Zischägge
17th/18th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Polish Hussar's Turban Zischägge
17th/18th Century

With modern conical textile padded turban with wide brim of red, blue and fawn over an iron rim, and sewn overall with downward-lapping iron scales (some rust patination and some loose) mostly stamped with four small circles at the tip, and some with an iron rivet on a brass dome, domed gilt-copper cap chased with scrolling foliage under an applied cross with beaded borders, and surmounted by a gilt ball with later cross
10 cm. high

Footnotes

From a Polish scale (Karacena) armour. See Zdzislaw Zygulski, Stara Broń w polskich zbiorach, 1982, p. 22, fig. 8; and Anna Wasilkowska, Husaria. The Winged Horsemen, 1998, p. 84, fig. 67

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.