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Originally Posted by naborow
this is another of the 15 or so things we got in a swap some 15 years ago from a family of someone who was in India in 1906. I have been looking on this forum and on the internet and want to confirm:
Antique Indo-Persian Helmet, 19th C with plume holders and sliding nose guard, and chain mail.?
Is it muslim or hindu or possible to tell? Indian, I think? where?
It does not have a spire coming from the top. Was that originally part of this.? the decorative rosette on the top seems so different from the ones i have seen on the internet. If its actually missing, what does that do to value (allowed question??)
I assume the detail is brass??
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Salaams naborrow ~ Indo Persian yes more or less and probably the same time frame as late Qajar ~ 1900 or about . Certainly the style is for a spiked projection and the 3rd picture shows the wear from the original spike. It is Koftgari gold decorated.. see forum library for that technique. Not Brass. Nice lions and elephants around the rim. Consider restoring the spike.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.