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
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