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AN ARTICULATED MINIATURE FULL ARMOUR
IN 16TH CENTURY STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Of blued steel, comprising close-helmet with one-piece skull and ribbed tail-like plume-holder at the rear, visor pierced with six rectangular breaths, gorget, full arm defences (gauntlets missing), breast-plate and back-plate, the former with shaped gilt-brass plaque held by rivets and with applied gilt-brass grotesque mask, between two sprigged gilt-brass panels, the latter with four sprigged gilt-brass panels, tassets of three lames, and full leg defences with sabatons each carrying a riveted spur, decorated with line engraving, and with gilt-brass rivets, hinges and buckles throughout, together with a shield of blued steel, the outside with applied steel panel pierced with foliage and decorated with a gilt-brass bust of a warrior: on wooden dummy partly covered with buff-leather and with realistically carved and painted wooden head
15in. (38cm.) high
IN 16TH CENTURY STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Of blued steel, comprising close-helmet with one-piece skull and ribbed tail-like plume-holder at the rear, visor pierced with six rectangular breaths, gorget, full arm defences (gauntlets missing), breast-plate and back-plate, the former with shaped gilt-brass plaque held by rivets and with applied gilt-brass grotesque mask, between two sprigged gilt-brass panels, the latter with four sprigged gilt-brass panels, tassets of three lames, and full leg defences with sabatons each carrying a riveted spur, decorated with line engraving, and with gilt-brass rivets, hinges and buckles throughout, together with a shield of blued steel, the outside with applied steel panel pierced with foliage and decorated with a gilt-brass bust of a warrior: on wooden dummy partly covered with buff-leather and with realistically carved and painted wooden head
15in. (38cm.) high