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A Very Fine North German Cuirassier's Black And White Three-Quarter Armour
Early 17th Century

Antique Arms and Armour and Modern Sporting Guns
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Fine North German Cuirassier's Black And White Three-Quarter Armour
Early 17th Century

Of blackened steel with domed rivets and turned partly roped edges overall, comprising close-burgonet with two-piece skull rising to a low comb, the prominently peaked fall carrying a riveted face-guard pierced with horizontal sights and four vertical breaths on each side, pivoted at the same points as the lower-bevor on each side and secured by a hook-catch on the right side, tubular plume-holder at the rear, single neck-plates at the front and rear, and retaining its original quilted canvas lining, gorget of three lames front and rear, the lower lames each with pointed border en suite with the breast- and earlier back-plate, the former of peascod form with skirt of three lames, the latter with riveted side-plates, large pauldrons extending over the front and back, full articulated vambraces each with turning joint and heart-shaped bracelet cowter embossed with a stellate design over the elbow, lower cannons hinged together, and fingered gauntlets each with pointed cuff and retaining its buff-leather liner, knee-length tassets each of thirteen upward lapping lames including poleyns, the bottoms detachable at the eighth lame, the poleyns each embossed with a floret and with slightly pointed side-wings, the surfaces overall decorated with bright borders

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, Goodrich Court
J. Seymour Lucas, R.A. (1849-1923) the famous historical and portrait painter, collector of arms and armour and former President of the Meyrick Society who depicted this armour in his work including An Ambuscade, Edgehill, 1878; Disputed Strategy, 1882; and Charles I Before Gloucester, 1881
Sir Edward Barry, Ockwells Manor, displayed above the fireplace in the hall
Sotheby & Co., London, Catalogue Of Important Early Armour Formerly in the Collection of Sir Edward Barry of Ockwells Manor, Bray, Berkshire - The Property of S.H. Barnett, Esq., 5 July, 1965, lot 61 (the original sale catalogue and invoice to the buyer, Ronald L. Walters of Pasadena, California is offered with the lot)

Exhibited:
A distinguished collection of Arms and Armor on permanent display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, 1968, cat. no. 3

Literature:
Joseph Skelton, Engraved Illustrations of Antient Armour from the collection at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire from the drawings and with the descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, Oxford, 1830, pl. XXXV
Guy Francis Laking, M.V.O., F.S.A., Keeper of the King's Armoury, 'Mr. Edward Barry's Collection of Arms and Armour at Ockwells Manor, Bray', The Connoisseur, February, 1905, pp. 67-75

Offered with a quantity of facsimile material relating to publications and pictures in which the armour is included and with a typed letter from Claude Blair to Mr Walters, dated 5 November 1965, in which he describes the armour as 'one of the best specimens of its kind that I know'

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