Sale 7468
London
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20 September 2007
Price realised
GBP 625
Estimate
A GERMAN MITTEN GAUNTLET Late 16th Century Of russet steel, with long tubular cuff with turned inner edges, metacarpus of five boxed lames, knuckle plate embossed with a prominent cabled bar, five articulated boxed lames over the fingers, and the forward plate with turned roped edge (the thumb plate missing). 14¼in (36.2cm)
Provenance
Henry Griffith Keasbey, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, lot 284, pl. XXV
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