An elegant cuirassier three-quarter armour

dating: circa 1600 provenance: Augsburg, Composed of a cavalry helmet, bust complete with gorget, breast-plate and back-plate, complete brassards and knee-cops. Helmet with skull in one piece, with medium-height comb, with roped engraving on the border, raisable visor with a slot for a comb in the center, eye-slots with strongly relieved prominence, opening knob; ventail with double row of ventilation holes and remains of double lines, beaver with release button for ventail; a row of brass rivets at the skull's base, iron plume-holder on the back, neck-guard and nape-guard both of single plate with edge with a recessed band and file-roped border with downward turn, two-plated upper border with dotted festoons and double outline. Neck-collar with four front and back plates, the upper ones with a thick twisted rope, the others all with festooned upper edge, dotted and with double line. Fully enclosed arm defenses with articulated couters with large epaulettes with brass rivets, file-roped border and cusped upper edges; all the articulated plates of the brassards carved en suite with the gorget and helmet. Beautiful breast-plate, strongly ribbed in the center and with well evident tapul, engraved with a scene with an armed man, fully dressed and armed with a rapier is kneeling intent on praying devoutly the effigy of crucified Christ; both figures with traces of gilding, a cartouche above the knight with letters 'RUBR'; well visible Augsburg stamp under the thick file-roped neckline. Gussets with festooned borders en suite with other elements, pauldron small-plates with a thick roping en suite with neckline. Back-plate with two culet plates with festooned border. Front loin-guard with two plates provided with long knee-cops of thirteen elements, removable. Protection plates of the cuissard, all with upper border with dotted festoons and with double outlining. Articulated knuckle-shields with scaled fingers and back carved en suite with the other elements. Later leather strings but of old production anyway. Mounted on a wooden exhibition support.Height as shown circa 138 cm. This fine armour carved en suite is documented in 'Zeitschrift für historische Waffen', Dresden 1912-1914, as 'Ein Augsburger Trabharnisch'. height total with base circa 195 cm.