A PAIR OF RARE AUGSBURG SPLITS of steel, each comprising a spaudler of three plates, one top plate struck with the Nuremberg mark, gutter-shaped upper- and lower-cannons linked by a shell-shaped cowter, the lower ones slotted for a sliding rivet on a three plate extension for the back of the hand, the edges at the top, elbow and wrist with narrow turns (patinated overall, some plates, and leathers and buckles replaced), early 16th Century (2) | Christie's

Lot 109

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A PAIR OF RARE AUGSBURG SPLITS of steel, each comprising a spaudler of three plates, one top plate struck with the Nuremberg mark, gutter-shaped upper- and lower-cannons linked by a shell-shaped cowter, the lower ones slotted for a sliding rivet on a three plate extension for the back of the hand, the edges at the top, elbow and wrist with narrow turns (patinated overall, some plates, and leathers and buckles replaced), early 16th Century (2)

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A PAIR OF RARE AUGSBURG SPLITS of steel, each comprising a spaudler of three plates, one top plate struck with the Nuremberg mark, gutter-shaped upper- and lower-cannons linked by a shell-shaped cowter, the lower ones slotted for a sliding rivet on a three plate extension for the back of the hand, the edges at the top, elbow and wrist with narrow turns (patinated overall, some plates, and leathers and buckles replaced), early 16th Century (2)

Lot Essay

Splints were the characteristic arm-defences of the early 16th Century light infantry armour called an Almain rivet. Very many were imported into England, and a few survive in old armouries

See C. Blair, European Armour, 1958, pp.118-9

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