A Composite Armour

A Composite Armour
Comprehensively 16th Century
Of bright steel, comprising a heavy Italian close-helmet for the tilt (slight damage, partly from use in the tournament ?) with one-piece skull with low comb and tubular iron plume-holder, single vision-slit with central division, prow-shaped upper-bevor (associated ?) pierced with a series of small ventilation slits on the right side and lower-bevor, the two fastened together by a wing-nut on the right, the bottom edge with a hollow flange for the top of the gorget, the latter of three plates at front and rear, the top with a prominent roped flange, German cuirass with breast-plate with prominent central point, prominent roped flange at the neck and along the edges of the moveable gussets, and hinged lance-rest, back-plate with culet of a single plate (later), skirt of three plates with hinged one piece tassets (all later), later spaudlers, vambraces, gauntlets (not a pair, some finger-plates missing), and complete legharness with round-toed sabatons, and with later etching throughout including a coat-of-arms on the helmet and breast-plate: on wooden stand