A RARE MORO TRIBESMANS SHIRT 19TH CENTURY formed of thick brass butted links extending to the upper thigh and the top of the arms, the front and back with rows of horn plaques, a single row of brass plaques towards the base, the main frontal plates enriched with small chased silver plaques, and fitted with a pair of catches for closure (one incomplete, some plaques cracked, small losses) Provenance Donated to the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection 9th May 1957 by Nathaniel Sage, Jr. and William H. Sage III, grandsons of Brigadier General William Hamden Sage (1859-1922). JWHA Inv. No. 3521 See footnote to previous lot
A RARE MORO TRIBESMANS SHIRT 19TH CENTURY formed of thick brass butted links extending to the upper thigh and the top of the arms, the front and back with rows of horn plaques, a single row of brass plaques towards the base, the main frontal plates enriched with small chased silver plaques, and fitted with a pair of catches for closure (one incomplete, some plaques cracked, small losses) Provenance Donated to the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection 9th May 1957 by Nathaniel Sage, Jr. and William H. Sage III, grandsons of Brigadier General William Hamden Sage (1859-1922). JWHA Inv. No. 3521 See footnote to previous lot
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