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A GERMAN GOTHIC ARMOUR
ALMOST CERTAINLY BY ERNST SCHMIDT OF MUNICH, IN LATE 15TH CENTURY STYLE
Of bright steel, comprising sallet with one-piece fluted skull, long pointed tail of four lames, each lame with a central pierced finial, the bottom lame with embossed chevron pattern, and pivoted visor (pointed tip dented), separate bevor of four plates, the lower plate pierced for a staple on the breast-plate (shaped securing-bolt missing), pivoted gorget of two plates front and rear, breast-plate of three upward-lapping plates, the outer plates each curving up to a central point with pierced finial and flanked by similar smaller finials, hinged lance-rest, skirt of three plates with cusped and pierced edges, separate one-piece tassets with cusped edges, waisted ribbed back-plate of four plates and culet of three lames, all with cusped and pierced edges, pauldrons each of eight plates, carrying pierced, cusped and ribbed besagews each with central spike, vambraces with turning joints and large cowters, and fingered gauntlets each with pointed cuff (some finger-plates missing), all decorated en suite with the cuirass, legharness each with long cuisse decorated with radiating flutes and with hinged side-plates and single lame at the top, poleyns with three plates above and below, all decorated en suite, plain closed greave, and pointed laminated sabaton (some scattered patches of surface corrosion throughout, sabatons each with surface corrosion, some leather damaged and incomplete), on partially clothed stand with wooden plinth (some wear) with decorative rapier with long straight quillons (tip of blade bent) and a pair of rowel spurs with long straight necks
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