lamella and mail body armour, Russian, 17th century

Some comparable examples are illustrated in Leonid Tarassuk, 'The Collection of Arms and Armour in the State Hermitage, Leningrad', The Journal of The Arms and Armour Society, Vol. V, Nos. 4-5, March 1966, pp205-208.  The author highlights the rarity of examples of mixed mail and plate half-armours such as the offered lot. See also A.N. Kirpichnikov, Oyennoe Delo na Usi v XIII-XV v.v., Leningrad, 1976 and the mail half-armour of Tsar Mikhail Feodrovich, 1620.