Beschreibung:

of shot-proof weight, comprising close helmet with heavy one-piece skull rising to a low roped comb, fitted at the nape with a plume-holder (replaced), pierced on each side with a slot for a strap, peak, upper bevor and bevor attached by common pivots with radially fluted heads, the peak projecting forward to a rounded obtuse point, upper bevor flanged outwards to form the lower edge of the vision-slit, pierced on the right with a circular arrangement of eight holes around a central hole, secured to the bevor by a hook and stud, bevor secured to the skull by a pierced hasp and turning-pin, two gorget-plates front and rear; collar of a single plate front and rear, secured at the right by a stud and key-hole slot and fitted with a swivelling hinged loop at each side for the pauldron-straps; heavy breastplate formed in one piece with vestigial peascod, low roped flanges at the neck and arm-openings, struck with a small proof-mark at the top of the chest, fitted at its right with original folding lance-rest attached by two screws, flanged outwards at the base and carrying at each side a tasset of eighteen lames with detachable poleyn of four lames, the third with small wing; heavy backplate matching the breastplate, struck with the proof-mark of a bullet at its left shoulder and a pistol-proof mark at base of the back, fitted at each shoulder with a swivelling hinged single-ended buckle, and at its flanged lower edge with three turning-pins for the attachment of a broad culet of five lames; later greaves with articulated sabatons; a pair of full arm-defences comprising asymmetrical pauldrons each of seven lames overlapping outwards from the third, connected by a turner to a pair of vambraces, each formed of a tubular upper and lower cannon linked by a couter of three lames with a small oval wing front and rear and enclosed at the inside of the elbow by twelve lames overlapping inwards to the seventh, the lower cannon secured at the front by a hinged hasp and turning-pin; a pair of gauntlets with markedly flared cuffs closed at the inside by a rivetted overlap, articulated by a wrist-plate to five metacarpal-plates and a shaped knuckle-plate (finger and thumb-scales missing); the principal borders with file-roped inward turns, decorated throughout with etched and gilt ornament on a blued ground with slender vertical panels of cabling giving issue at either side to sprigs of trefoil foliage and the principal borders with broad bands of stylised acanthus involving flowerheads on a stippled ground, the whole releathered and in stable condition throughout