A RARE WAISTCOAT CUIRASS, of peascod form, comprising two large main parts, incorporating the arm holes, hinged to a narrow central back-plate and overlapping down the front where brass lining rivets simulate buttons, two pierced studs on the right engaging under holes on the left and held by locking devices (missing), narrow neck-guard and bottom flange encircled by lining rivets and made in one with the main plates, the latter cusped at the rear, the main edges turned and roped and bordered by an engraved line, rivet for a girdle, and proof bullet mark on the left (rust patinated throughout), late 16th Century, probably German