INDO PERSIAN TABAR AXE

[Dom]

Originally Posted by Atlantia

The chainmail looks right to me. The link diameter, the brass links for decoration, the overall shape.

Hi
yes for the "chain-mail", it's an old one, adapted on an Indian helmet,
the doubt is patent in this case
just have a look here, plenty ... same model ;


here below a Qajar helmet, with his chain-mail,
it hasn't mask and horn, but it's a real, not a copy,
easy to see the difference of metal work

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Dom

[Stan S.]

Cerjak, I really like the last helmet pictured in your post. The one without horns but of a nice classical form with a tall spike on top and two plume holders.

By the way, I often see people displaying these helmets with peacock feathers in the plume holders. Do we know that thats what they were intended for? Why peacock feathers? And always why 2 (as opposed to 1 or 3 or 57 feathers)? Sorry to derail...

[Dom]

Originally Posted by Stan S.

Why peacock feathers? And always why 2 (as opposed to 1 or 3 or 57 feathers)? Sorry to derail...

Hi Stan
not easy to create a derailment ... with feathers

why peacock feathers ? because it's a Persian tradition, see explanations below, extracted from Internet

In Babylonia and Persia the Peacock is seen as a guardian to royalty,
and is often seen in engravings upon the thrones of royalty.

also

(quote on/Wikipedia sources)The Peacock Throne, called Takht-e Tâvus (Persian: تخت طاووس) in Persian,
is the name originally given to a Mughal throne of India,
which was later adopted and used to describe the thrones of the Persian emperors from Nader Shah Afshari and
erroneously to Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi whose throne was a reconstruction of the Achemenid throne. (quote off/Wikipedia sources)

Personally, I put back to back, two feathers, so that all sides it is good sense

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Dom