A STEEL TARGET BY ERNST SCHMIDT OF MUNICH, BEFORE 1931, IN THE GERMAN STYLE OF THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY of slightly convex circular form, fitted at its centre with a stout pyramidal spike, around its outward-flanged edge with a series of round-headed lining-rivets retaining large brass rosette washers, and to either side of the spike with two pairs of rivets for the attachment of enarmes, the bottom of the shield engraved beneath the date 1625 with a quartered coat-of-arms, showing in the first and four quarters a ram, and in the second and third quarters with a bend charged with three conical devices 63 cm; 24¾ in diameter Provenance Ernst Schmidt, Munich, 3rd December 1931 JWHA Inv. No. 1711 Exhibited Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 26-8 September 1968 and 26-7 September 1969 The design of the shield is stated to have been based on that of the 'Loffelholz' example belonging to the Bayerisches National Museum, Munich.
A STEEL TARGET BY ERNST SCHMIDT OF MUNICH, BEFORE 1931, IN THE GERMAN STYLE OF THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY of slightly convex circular form, fitted at its centre with a stout pyramidal spike, around its outward-flanged edge with a series of round-headed lining-rivets retaining large brass rosette washers, and to either side of the spike with two pairs of rivets for the attachment of enarmes, the bottom of the shield engraved beneath the date 1625 with a quartered coat-of-arms, showing in the first and four quarters a ram, and in the second and third quarters with a bend charged with three conical devices 63 cm; 24¾ in diameter Provenance Ernst Schmidt, Munich, 3rd December 1931 JWHA Inv. No. 1711 Exhibited Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 26-8 September 1968 and 26-7 September 1969 The design of the shield is stated to have been based on that of the 'Loffelholz' example belonging to the Bayerisches National Museum, Munich.
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