A GERMAN FULL ARMOUR IN THE INNSBRUCK STYLE OF 1540, 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NUREMBURG

A GERMAN FULL ARMOUR IN THE INNSBRUCK STYLE OF 1540, 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NUREMBURG

comprising close helmet with one-piece skull rising to a low roped medial comb, and bellows visor and bevor attached to it by common pivots, the visor pierced with a series of horizontal ventilation-slots and the bevor and skull each formed at their lower edges with a roped and internally hollowed rim that locks over and rotates on the turned upper edge of a collar of four lames, the lowest three of which are cut at the centres their upper edges with ogees, medially ridged breastplate boldly roped at the neck and struck with Nuremburg control mark and the spurious mark of Valentin Siebenburger, fitted with roped gussets at the arm-openings, a detachable folding-lance rest at the right armpit, a pair of hinged hasps at each side for the attachment of a backplate, at its with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a fauld of two lames and pendent tassets each of three lames, matching backplate marked at the neck en suite, fitted with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a culet of two lames, a pair of asymmetrical pauldrons each fitted at its front with a reinforce, three-piece vambraces comprising upper cannons with turners, large one-piece-couters, lower cannons, and a pair of mitten gauntlets, a pair of full leg-defences comprising one-piece gutter-shaped cuisses, winged poleyns, greaves and articulated broad-toed sabatons, the main edges of the armour with roped turns accompanied by double-recessed borders, the tassets, pauldrons, couters, and poleyns all embossed with tapering medial bands of scales (small areas of rust and some disarticulation), on a fabric-covered dummy with well carved wooden head, on a wooden stand

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