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Caucasian Archak type saddle with stirrups, horse belts and double saddlebag. First half of 19th century.
Covered with leather and fitted with bone decorations, with a pair of leather side panels and metal stirrups with leather belts fitted with numerous silver ornaments in Caucasian style and woollen bag woven with traditional pattern.
L: 19 1/2 in (50 cm)
    
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Silver decorated Cossack officer's Caucasian style officer's belt from the time of the Russian-British Crimea war of 1850's.
Used as a part of Cossack uniform with is evident from a "Circassian" silver galun ribbon on the the edges of the belt. Profusely decorated with hand-chased and nielloed silver details. Large silver buckle has a chased image of a bird - traditional Cossack symbol of Liberty and Freedom.
L: 38 in (96.5 cm) x 2 in (4.5 cm) wide
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| Traditional Russian Cossack Caucasian-style leather belt with silver fittings. Has 26 silver details (all profusely decorated en suite with hand-chasing and nielloed ornament) . Very expensive to make with lavish decorations, this belt, no doubt belonged to a well-to-do Cossack officer.
Rare as a complete set with no missing parts and mostly original leather . Maker's mark in Arabic on the end piece.
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| A matching pair of silver decorated presentation wine drinking horns. Made in Georgia region of Caucasus in mid XIX century as a wedding presentation set, the horns are decorated with silver detail which is hand chased and nielloed with an intricate floral pattern with a bird-head ends. Horns for wine drinking were an important attribute of holiday celebrations in the culture of Caucasian and Cossack peoples.
The inscription in Georgian dates the horns to [18]53.
One of the horns has a small original repair , otherwise very good original condition.
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Profusely decorated silver Kula wine flask. Made in Georgia region of Caucasus in the early XIX century as a wedding presentation set, the flask is decorated with hand chased scenes of a wedding party, people and hunting predator animals.
Superb original condition.
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Profusely decorated mid-19th century silver Georgian Azarpesh wine laddle. The cup is decorated with hand chased images of birds and wild flowers. Ca. 1863 with Georgian maker initials and Moscow town, assayer and silver purity marks on cup and handle.
Superb original condition.
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| Complete matching set of 18 Cossack gaziri cartridges. Gilt silver caps decorated and nielloed. Come on original wooden holder sticks. Unmarked. Superb original condition.
Gaziri were initially used as caps for gunpowder cartridges but later became purely decorative part of the Cossack uniform worn in the special pockets on the Cherkesska jacket. Large matching sets of 18 gaziri on original wooden holders are rarely found, since, due to high cost, only high ranking and well-to-do Cossacks could afford them.
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| Complete matching set of early 19 century 14 Cossack gaziri cartridges. Gilt silver caps decorated and nielloed. Come on original wooden holder sticks. Unmarked. Superb original condition.
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| Complete matching set of large 14 Cossack gaziri cartridges. Silver caps decorated and nielloed. Hallmarked with 84 zolotniks silver content. Superb original condition.
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| Complete matching set of 16 Cossack gaziri cartridges. Gilt silver caps decorated and nielloed. Hallmarked with 84 zolotniks silver content and maker's initials "CA". Come on original wooden holder sticks. Ca. 1900-1917. Superb original condition.
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| Matching set of 8 Cossack gaziri cartridges. Gilt silver caps decorated and nielloed. Unmarked. Come on original wooden holder sticks. Superb original condition.
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| A set of silver Cossack belt details. Rare 19th century collection of Caucasian type belt silver details comprising of a realistically modeled revolver, two sets of two pistol cartridges and a named box inscribed on the back in niello Антонъ Бестаевъ. All heavily decorated with chasing and niello. The box is hallmarked with 84 silver content. Very good original condition.
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| Silver and niello souvenir matchbox cover. Decorated silver matchbox cover with inscription КАВКАЗЪ (Caucasus) on the front and owner's initials engraved on the back.
Master's initails PM and city of Kiev silver content mark 84.
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