IDENTIFIERS
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id:	160113
accession number:	O.187-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 17 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: In the form of a sleeved skirted jacket, opening at the front, and slit at the back for riding. The mail is all of riveted construction. The sleeves are cut at an angle. Each link is forged with a Koranic inscription. Low of the left front skirt is a blob of lead incised with an illegible mark. At the neck is a collar with dags, formed of brass butted links and iron links in alternate rows of riveted links and theta-shaped solid links in a geometric pattern. Round the outside of the collar is gold thread, with tassels, much damaged and wired to a piece of card (which wants removing!), with gold and red threads
title:	mail shirt

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Robert Taylor
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/160113





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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culture:	16th Century
culture:	18th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 0.35

dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 0.5

dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 1.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 76

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 60



CITATIONS
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List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879
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