A QAJAR ENGRAVED AND DAMASCENED STEEL SHIELD (khula khud) AND HELMET (dhal), the helmet of hemispherical form rising to the pointed top with applied noseguard, plume holders and chain mail skirt densely engraved with flowering vine around similar cartouches within damascened arabesque outlines, a band of cartouches alternating with roundels below containing silver damascened nasta'liq inscriptions, the shield with similar dense floral panels radiating from the central roundel with gold damascened inscription, in a similar border of silver nasta'liq inscription panels between stripes, second half 19th century