A Composite German Cuirassier Armour

CIRCA 1630

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A Composite German Cuirassier Armour
Circa 1630
Comprising cuirassier helmet with heavy two-piece skull with low comb, pivoted bevor and fall, the latter carrying a face-mask pierced with two vision slits, circles and slots, and single deep gorget-plate at front and rear, two-plate gorget, cuirass with breast-plate of late peasecod form, back-plate with a deep fauld of four plates studded with rivets, knee-length laminated tassets with poleyns with side-wings, large pauldrons extending over the front and back, complete vambraces with turning-joints, upper- and lower-cannons linked by turning-joints (one plate on the right later), and fingered gauntlets (fingers missing), the main edges turned throughout, and on the vambraces, roped, also domed rivets throughout, some with brass heads