A Composite North Italian (Milanese) Half-Armour
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A Composite North Italian (Milanese) Half-Armour

COMPREHENSIVELY LATE 16TH CENTURY

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A Composite North Italian (Milanese) Half-Armour
Comprehensively late 16th Century
Comprising heavy close-helmet for the tilt (slight damage caused by sword-cuts) with one-piece skull with low comb and tubular brass plume-holder, visor with single sight with central division, prow-shaped upper-bevor pierced with small ventilation holes on the right, lower-bevor shaped to the chin, wing-nut and steel strap and turning-pin fastenings on the right, the lower edge with a hollow flange etched with pairs of diagonal lines, for the top of the gorget, the latter of three plates front and rear, the top with a prominent turn, cuirass comprising breast-plate of peasecod form with roped turn at the neck, and flanged lower edge (moveable armhole gussets missing), and back-plate (patched inside) with lower flange, struck inside with an arsenal (?) mark, a Maltese cross, skirt of a single plate, tassets of seven plates each with turned and roped main edge, asymmetrical pauldrons of seven plates each (two plates patched inside), closed vambraces with turning joints with turning-pin attachments to the pauldrons and heart-shaped cowters, and fingered gauntlets (minor damage, thumb-plates missing, fingers replaced) with bell-shaped cuffs, etched throughout in the so-called 'Pisan' manner with bands containing strapwork and Classical figures in oval cartouches, releathered throughout (the etching and gilding nearly all refreshed or of later date): on padded wooden dummy similar to that of the preceding lot, and on wooden plinth
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