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Lot 91

A Composite Three-Quarter Armour
Partly Early 17th Century And Later

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Composite Three-Quarter Armour
Partly Early 17th Century And Later

Comprising a cuirassier helmet with rounded two-piece skull, the peaked fall and upper-and lower-bevors pivoted at the same points against a star-shaped washer on either side, the peak with turned and roped edge, the upper bevor pierced for the eyes and with rectangular 'mouth', lower-bevor shaped to the chin and with pivot hook-catch on the right, gorget-plate front and rear with turned and roped lower edges, and incised double line borders, two plate gorget, breast-and back-plate, the former with medial ridge, vambraces each with turning joint and pauldrons each of four upward-lapping lames extending over the back, gauntlets (fingers and one thumb missing), knee-length tassets each of sixteen upward-lapping lames (some loose, the right side with some damage) mostly with waved upper edge, embossed oval over each knee and side-wings, the latter with turned edges, and large dome-headed rivets (some pitting and patination overall)

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