A GERMAN COUTER FROM AN 'ALMAIN RIVET', EARLY 16TH CENTURY of sub-rectangular form, shaped to the front and point of the elbow (the latter showing a small perforation), cropped and decorated with puckered edges at its inner corners, fitted at its rear edge with a single-ended iron buckle to receive a strap formerly riveted at the inside of the elbow, fitted at its centre with a rivet that formerly attached it by means of an internal leather to the defences above and below it, and pieced to the inside of it with a pair of lace holes now occupied by a modern leather lace terminating in contemporary points, the rear painted with the collection number 112 over the initials C-D 13.9 cm; 5½ in Provenance Francis Henry Cripps-Day, London Dr Lockett Gerald I. Mungeam, London Ian Eaves, London The couter is from the characteristic splint or arm defence of a type of infantry known as an 'Almain rivet'. Splints with almost identical couters can be recorded in the armoury of St Mary's Church, Mendlesham, Suffolk ((Francis Henry Cripps-Day, 'On Armour Preserved in English Churches, in Laking 1922, Vol. V, pp.240-1, figs 138-40), in the former armoury of the Tollemache family at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, and in the John Woodman Higgins Armoury, Worcester, Massachusetts, Acc. No. 938 (Grancsay 1961, pp. 32-3).
A GERMAN COUTER FROM AN 'ALMAIN RIVET', EARLY 16TH CENTURY of sub-rectangular form, shaped to the front and point of the elbow (the latter showing a small perforation), cropped and decorated with puckered edges at its inner corners, fitted at its rear edge with a single-ended iron buckle to receive a strap formerly riveted at the inside of the elbow, fitted at its centre with a rivet that formerly attached it by means of an internal leather to the defences above and below it, and pieced to the inside of it with a pair of lace holes now occupied by a modern leather lace terminating in contemporary points, the rear painted with the collection number 112 over the initials C-D 13.9 cm; 5½ in Provenance Francis Henry Cripps-Day, London Dr Lockett Gerald I. Mungeam, London Ian Eaves, London The couter is from the characteristic splint or arm defence of a type of infantry known as an 'Almain rivet'. Splints with almost identical couters can be recorded in the armoury of St Mary's Church, Mendlesham, Suffolk ((Francis Henry Cripps-Day, 'On Armour Preserved in English Churches, in Laking 1922, Vol. V, pp.240-1, figs 138-40), in the former armoury of the Tollemache family at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, and in the John Woodman Higgins Armoury, Worcester, Massachusetts, Acc. No. 938 (Grancsay 1961, pp. 32-3).
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