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398 397 A CLOSE HELMET IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY WESTERN EUROPEAN STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece skull joined medially by a line of rivets hidden, except at the nape where a tapering plume-tube conceals them, beneath a roped strip of semi-circular section, peak, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to the skull at each side by common pivots, the barred visor variously pierced with small circular ventilation-holes, and the markedly concave upper bevor pierced with four radiating lozengeshaped holes separated by lines of smaller circular holes, the lower edges of the skull and bevor each flanged outwards to receive a single gorget-plate, the bevor connected to the skull at the right by a simple self-sprung stud and hole, the lower bevor connected to the upper bevor at the left by a swivelhook and stud, and the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns (lightly patinated overall) 28.5 cm; 11¼ in £250-300 398 A GERMAN ‘BLACK AND WHITE’ BREASTPLATE, CIRCA 1570-80 with a medially ridged main plate projecting forward over the belly, having a broad slightly concave upper edge, fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of two (originally three) lames, the main edges of the breastplate formed with fileroped inward turns and its surfaces decorated with raised bands and borders burnished bright against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 32.7 cm; 17 ¼ in £1100-1400
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399 A GERMAN ‘BLACK AND WHITE’ BREASTPLATE, CIRCA 1570 with a medially ridged main plate projecting forward over the belly, having a broad straight upper edge, fitted at its armopenings with moveable gussets, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of two lames, the lowest of which is cut over the crotch with a shallow arch and pierced to either side of it with two pairs of rivet- holes for the former attachment of tasset suspension-straps (the inner of the outermost pair of holes in each case doubling as an articulation-point), the main edges of the breastplate formed with file-roped inward turns and its surfaces decorated with variously raised and recessed bands and borders burnished bright against a blackened ground) 46.5 cm; 18 ¼ in £1100-1700 400 A SOUTH GERMAN ‘BLACK AND WHITE’ BREASTPLATE, CIRCA 1570-80 with a medially ridged main plate projecting forward over the belly, having a broad slightly concave upper edge, fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussetts, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of three lames (all associated), the lowest of which is cut over the crotch with a shallow arch and pierced to either side of it with a pair of rivetholes for the former attachment of tasset suspension-straps (the outermost hole in each case doubling as an articulationpoint and accompanied to its outside of it by a later rivet), the main edges of the breastplate and its fauld formed with fileroped inward turns and its surfaces decorated with raised bands and borders burnished bright against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 43.0 cm; 17 in £1000-1300
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