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PREDOMINANTLY GERMAN, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY AND LATER
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A COMPOSITE INFANTRY HALF-ARMOUR
PREDOMINANTLY GERMAN, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY AND LATER
With a 17th century cuirassier helmet with two-piece skull, pivoting fall with pointed peak, upper bevor pierced with circular breaths, lower bevor shaped to the chin, and two gorget-plates to the front and rear, the remainder of 'black and white' type, comprising almain-collar of a main-plate and two neck-plates at the front and rear, hinged on the left, and with short spaulders of five plates each, cuirass comprising back-plate with culet of two plates and breast-plate with prominent central point, moveable gussets and prominent roped turns at the neck and arms, skirt of two plates, and knee-length tassets of seven plates each, the lowest deeper and bluntly pointed, the main edges turned and roped, some bordered by a raised guilloche pattern, on wooden stand
PREDOMINANTLY GERMAN, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY AND LATER
With a 17th century cuirassier helmet with two-piece skull, pivoting fall with pointed peak, upper bevor pierced with circular breaths, lower bevor shaped to the chin, and two gorget-plates to the front and rear, the remainder of 'black and white' type, comprising almain-collar of a main-plate and two neck-plates at the front and rear, hinged on the left, and with short spaulders of five plates each, cuirass comprising back-plate with culet of two plates and breast-plate with prominent central point, moveable gussets and prominent roped turns at the neck and arms, skirt of two plates, and knee-length tassets of seven plates each, the lowest deeper and bluntly pointed, the main edges turned and roped, some bordered by a raised guilloche pattern, on wooden stand