A gold-inlaid kulah khud and bazu band (forearm guard), Persian, 19th century. Skull forged in one piece with diamond shaped floral chiselled, gold-inlaid decoration, a quadrangular spike which unscrews, an adjustable nasal, and two side-mounted plume sockets. An engraved decorative inscription runs along the rim and hanging mail curtains of iron rings joined by bending (minimal defects). Height ca. 63 cm. The matching arm guard is chiselled en suite with an attached wrist guard (rings incomplete). Length cm. Provenance: This and some of the following lots,

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