Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A GERMAN LIGHT FIELD CUIRASS, EARLY 17TH
CENTURY
the breast-plate of peascod form, each outwardly flanged at
the base and embossed with an ogee at the top, with broad
bands around the borders and characteristic converging
vertical bands left ‘in the white’ and the remaining surface
with later black painted finish, fitted with later shoulder
straps and a buckle at the waist for a belt
40cm; 15N in high
(2)
£800-1000
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A NORTH EUROPEAN PIKEMAN’S BREASTPLATE,
CIRCA 1640
formed in one piece with a medial ridge and V-shaped
waist-line, its neck-opening struck with ten dots arranged in
two groups, its upper end fitted at either side with a
mushroom-shaped stud for the attachment of a shoulderstrap,
its lower edge flanged outwards and fitted at either
side with a later hinge for the attachment of an associated
one-piece tasset embossed to simulate five lames, all parts
decorated with incised bands and plain inward-turned
edges accompanied, in the case of the tassets, by recessed
borders, their surfaces formerly black from the hammer
(worn overall, the rears of the tassets showing traces of
later but subsequently removed embossed bands)
58.4cm; 23in high
£700-900
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