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The Daily Dispatch: June 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee Cavalry raids. (search)
The Tycoon's gift to Lincoln.
--We announced some time since that the Tycoon of Japan had sent a gift to the President of the United States, consisting of a coat of mail.
The following is a description of it:
An umbrella-like helmet, of fabricated sheets of steel and copper, shields the head, while a vandyke of interwoven silk cord and lacquered not work falls gracefully upon the shoulders.
The outside of the helmet is profusely ornamented with chrysanthemums of gold, in beautiful open-work, upon black lacquer, with now and then a trimming of purest silver.
The visor is of copper, lacquered in scarlet and brown.
The armlets are of the finest copper chain-work.
The breastplate is of copper, intersected with parallel strips of lacquer, and woven together with delicate wire and golden cord.
A sort of kill accompanies the armor, and, with lacquerated leggings, grotesquely formed, complete the act.