A GERMAN GOTHIC ARMOUR in late 15th Century style, of bright steel, comprising sallet with one-piece skull, long pointed tail of one plate, and pivoted visor, separate bevor with chin-piece and riveted neck-plate secured to a staple on the breast, pivoted gorget of two plates front and rear, breast-plate of three upward-lapping plates, the outer ones curving up to central points with ornamentally pierced finials, flanked by similar smaller finials, skirt of three lames with cusped and pierced edges, separate one-piece tassets with cusped edges, waisted ribbed back-plate of four plates and culet of three lames, all with cusped and pierced edges, pauldrons each of seven lames, carrying circular pierced, cusped and ribbed besagews, vambraces with turning joints and shell cowters, and fingered gauntlets with pointed cuffs, all decorated en suite with the breast- and back-plate, legharness with long cuisses decorated with radiating flutes and with hinged side-plates, each with three laminations at the top, laminated poleyn with three plates above and below, all decorated en suite, plain closed greaves, pierced at the heels for rowel spurs with long straight necks, and pointed laminated sabatons, on iron stand with wooden plinth