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A LEFT CHEEKPIECE FROM A GERMAN ARMET, of prognathous form, scooped out for the face-opening, bold hollow roped turn at the bottom to fit the rim of a gorget, holes for lining rivets and rear hinges (all missing, slight damage), and wide neck-band and narrow borders etched with conventional foliage involving cornucopiae and monsters against a blackened ground, a sea monster between, circa 1530, probably Innsbruck; and a pair of gauntlets with pointed cuffs and laminated metacarpal plates, and domed brass rivets throughout (thumb and finger-plates missing) (3)