diff --git a/libimagentryfilter/src/builtin/header/field_istype.rs b/libimagentryfilter/src/builtin/header/field_istype.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..23191611
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libimagentryfilter/src/builtin/header/field_istype.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+use libimagstore::store::Entry;
+
+use builtin::header::field_path::FieldPath;
+use filter::Filter;
+
+use toml::Value;
+
+pub enum Type {
+    Array,
+    Boolean,
+    Float,
+    Integer,
+    None,
+    String,
+    Table,
+}
+
+impl Type {
+
+    fn matches(&self, v: &Value) -> bool {
+        match (self, v) {
+            (&Type::String,  &Value::String(_))  => true,
+            (&Type::Integer, &Value::Integer(_)) => true,
+            (&Type::Float,   &Value::Float(_))   => true,
+            (&Type::Boolean, &Value::Boolean(_)) => true,
+            (&Type::Array,   &Value::Array(_))   => true,
+            (&Type::Table,   &Value::Table(_))   => true,
+            _                                    => false,
+        }
+    }
+
+}
+
+pub struct FieldIsType {
+    header_field_path: FieldPath,
+    expected_type: Type,
+}
+
+impl FieldIsType {
+
+    pub fn new(path: FieldPath, expected_type: Type) -> FieldIsType {
+        FieldIsType {
+            header_field_path: path,
+            expected_type: expected_type,
+        }
+    }
+
+}
+
+impl Filter for FieldIsType {
+
+    fn filter(&self, e: &Entry) -> bool {
+        let header = e.get_header();
+        self.header_field_path
+            .walk(header)
+            .map(|v| self.expected_type.matches(&v))
+            .unwrap_or(false)
+    }
+
+}
+
+
diff --git a/libimagentryfilter/src/builtin/header/mod.rs b/libimagentryfilter/src/builtin/header/mod.rs
index c42547df..1dd2cb69 100644
--- a/libimagentryfilter/src/builtin/header/mod.rs
+++ b/libimagentryfilter/src/builtin/header/mod.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pub mod field_eq;
 pub mod field_grep;
+pub mod field_istype;
 pub mod field_path;