Beschreibung:

A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN 'MAXIMILIAN' MITTEN GAUNTLET FOR THE LEFT HAND, CIRCA 1520 formed of a slightly flared moderately long cuff fitted with a short hinged inner plate (the plate associated and its hinge restored), five metacarpal-plates (associated, reworked to match and patched at several points), a knuckle-plate decorated with a file-roped transverse rib and five finger-plates, the last of them having a rounded distal end, the main edges of the gauntlet formed with file-roped inward turns accompanied, except at the lower edge of the inner cuff-plate, by a recessed border enclosed at the upper end of the cuff by a raised rib, and its surfaces decorated with longitudinal flutes enclose by pairs of incised lines (lightly pitted overall with small patches of surface rust) 26.5 cm; 10½ in