A MAIL SUIT FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES BROUN-RAMSAY, 1ST MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA (1848-56)
A MAIL SUIT FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES BROUN-RAMSAY, 1ST MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA (1848-56)
A MAIL SUIT FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES BROUN-RAMSAY, 1ST MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA (1848-56)
A MAIL SUIT FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES BROUN-RAMSAY, 1ST MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA (1848-56)
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A MAIL SUIT FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES BROUN-RAMSAY, 1ST MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA (1848-56)

PUNJAB, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A MAIL SUIT FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES BROUN-RAMSAY, 1ST MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA (1848-56)
PUNJAB, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Comprising a jacket and trousers of half riveted steel mail, the jacket with cotton front and collar lined with metal-thread, the inner trousers cotton lined with metal-thread, with contemporaneous but associated shoes, with mannequin
57 1/8in. (145cm.) high, the shirt 35 1/8in. (89cm.) long
Provenance
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812-60), thence by descent to
Lady Susan Georgiana Ramsay (1837-98)
Dalhousie Collection, Dowell’s Rooms Edinburgh, 7 December 1898, lot 23
John George Alexander Baird (1854-1917), thence by descent
Dalhousie Collection, Colstoun House, Sotheby’s London, 22 May 1990, lot 36

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