Lot 85
85
A PAIR OF LOWER CANNONS from a pair of Augsburg splints, of steel, bolted for a sliding rivet on a four plate extension for the back of the hand, the top-plate with narrow turns (some plates and leathers replaced), early 16th Century (2)

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A PAIR OF LOWER CANNONS from a pair of Augsburg splints, of steel, bolted for a sliding rivet on a four plate extension for the back of the hand, the top-plate with narrow turns (some plates and leathers replaced), early 16th Century (2)

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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 remain in old armouries
See C. Blair, European Armour, 1958, pp. 118-9

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