CIRCA 1600
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A Composite German Or Swiss Infantry Half-Armour (Harnasch)
Circa 1600
Of bright steel, comprising burgonet with one-piece skull with high roped comb, prominent separate riveted fall, deep hinged cheek-pieces, neck-defence of one plate, and brass plume-pipe on shield-shaped mount stamped with rosettes, later two-piece gorget, cuirass decorated with incised panels, comprising back-plate with culet of one plate and breast-plate of late peasecod form with prominent roped turn at the neck, the latter struck with the Solothurn Zeughaus mark, fauld of one plate carrying knee-length tassets of six plates each, the bottom plates with sunken borders, symmetrical vambraces secured to spring-loaded posts on the gorget, each comprising spaudlers of five plates, turning joints with engrailed edges, and closed upper and lower cannons each linked by one plate to cowters with heart-shaped side-wings and transverse roped ribs, the main edges turned and roped, the rivets with domed brass heads throughout, some with rosette-shaped washers, the right cheek of the burgonet and the right side of the cuirass stamped respectively with the arsenal inventory numbers '95' and '18' under crosses, and two pairs of circular besagews (one pair later) with sunken roped borders and central points: on iron stand
For the Solothurn arsenal mark see R. Wegeli, Inventar der Waffensammlung des Bernischen Historischen Museums in Bern, I, 1920, No. 128
Circa 1600
Of bright steel, comprising burgonet with one-piece skull with high roped comb, prominent separate riveted fall, deep hinged cheek-pieces, neck-defence of one plate, and brass plume-pipe on shield-shaped mount stamped with rosettes, later two-piece gorget, cuirass decorated with incised panels, comprising back-plate with culet of one plate and breast-plate of late peasecod form with prominent roped turn at the neck, the latter struck with the Solothurn Zeughaus mark, fauld of one plate carrying knee-length tassets of six plates each, the bottom plates with sunken borders, symmetrical vambraces secured to spring-loaded posts on the gorget, each comprising spaudlers of five plates, turning joints with engrailed edges, and closed upper and lower cannons each linked by one plate to cowters with heart-shaped side-wings and transverse roped ribs, the main edges turned and roped, the rivets with domed brass heads throughout, some with rosette-shaped washers, the right cheek of the burgonet and the right side of the cuirass stamped respectively with the arsenal inventory numbers '95' and '18' under crosses, and two pairs of circular besagews (one pair later) with sunken roped borders and central points: on iron stand
For the Solothurn arsenal mark see R. Wegeli, Inventar der Waffensammlung des Bernischen Historischen Museums in Bern, I, 1920, No. 128