A GERMAN FLUTED 'MAXIMILIAN' FULL ARMOUR in early 16th Century style, of bright steel, comprising close-helmet, the one-piece skull with roped comb and visor embossed with a grotesque human face (minor damage), laminated gorget, pauldrons with haute-pieces, full arm defences with bold bracelet cowters and mitten gauntlets, cuirass, the back-plate with deep culet, and globular breast-plate made in two parts, and struck with counterfeit Augsburg mark, the lower part with bluntly pointed placard pierced at its ape with the initials 'IG CHAIGE', folding lance-rest, laminated skirt, short tassets, and full leg defences with square-toed sabatons: on wooden figure mounted on an octagonal wooden base

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A GERMAN FLUTED 'MAXIMILIAN' FULL ARMOUR in early 16th Century style, of bright steel, comprising close-helmet, the one-piece skull with roped comb and visor embossed with a grotesque human face (minor damage), laminated gorget, pauldrons with haute-pieces, full arm defences with bold bracelet cowters and mitten gauntlets, cuirass, the back-plate with deep culet, and globular breast-plate made in two parts, and struck with counterfeit Augsburg mark, the lower part with bluntly pointed placard pierced at its ape with the initials 'IG CHAIGE', folding lance-rest, laminated skirt, short tassets, and full leg defences with square-toed sabatons: on wooden figure mounted on an octagonal wooden base

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Probably made by Winkelmeyer of Vienna

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