A NORTH ITALIAN BREASTPLATE AND REINFORCE, CIRCA 1520-30 the medially-ridged breastplate, projecting forward very slightly over the belly, originally formed in one piece with bold file-roped inward turns at it neck and arm-openings and a flange at its lower edge (patched at two points), but subsequently modified by having the lower two-thirds of its right arm-opening removed and replace by a separate movable gusset, the whole covered, except at its turned edges, with an associated reinforce (probably cut from a breastplate), both elements pierced at their upper ends and at their right of their arm-openings with three and four aligning holes respectively (some later), those at the arm-openings originally attaching a lance-rest 39.5 cm; 15 1/2 in high Provenance Liberty & Co., London, 12 January 1939, £8 JWHA Inv. No. 2504
A NORTH ITALIAN BREASTPLATE AND REINFORCE, CIRCA 1520-30 the medially-ridged breastplate, projecting forward very slightly over the belly, originally formed in one piece with bold file-roped inward turns at it neck and arm-openings and a flange at its lower edge (patched at two points), but subsequently modified by having the lower two-thirds of its right arm-opening removed and replace by a separate movable gusset, the whole covered, except at its turned edges, with an associated reinforce (probably cut from a breastplate), both elements pierced at their upper ends and at their right of their arm-openings with three and four aligning holes respectively (some later), those at the arm-openings originally attaching a lance-rest 39.5 cm; 15 1/2 in high Provenance Liberty & Co., London, 12 January 1939, £8 JWHA Inv. No. 2504
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