AUCTION 43: ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOR

A SPANISH CIVIL WAR SILK SASH

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Start price: $50

Estimated price: $100 - $150

Buyer's premium: 28%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

An officer’s purple ‘moire’ silk sash commemorating service in the Spanish Civil War. The ends are decorated with large and ostentatious tassels and held together with a brass clasp embossed with the years ‘1936-1939’ contained within a border of decorative branches. It is in its original leather lined box with brass clasps, which retains the label of the manufacturer "Hijo de B. Castells" of Barcelona.

L: folded: 42 in., (106.5 cm.)

Condition: Very good. Minor creasing on the sash from being folded in the box for so long.