A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN HALF-ARMOUR etched throughout in the 'Pisan' manner, comprising 'Spanish' morion (patched) of one piece rising to a stalk, the upturned brim pointed fore and aft, gorget, full arm defences including gauntlets (fingers missing, two lames replaced in right pauldron), peascod breast-plate, and back-plate, the former with moveable gussets and embossed with scrolls, skirt of one plate (replaced), and tassets of eight lames embossed with scrolls (the right tasset and one lame of the left one replaced), late 16th Century

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A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN HALF-ARMOUR etched throughout in the 'Pisan' manner, comprising 'Spanish' morion (patched) of one piece rising to a stalk, the upturned brim pointed fore and aft, gorget, full arm defences including gauntlets (fingers missing, two lames replaced in right pauldron), peascod breast-plate, and back-plate, the former with moveable gussets and embossed with scrolls, skirt of one plate (replaced), and tassets of eight lames embossed with scrolls (the right tasset and one lame of the left one replaced), late 16th Century

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