£4,536
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Auction: Select Property from Towie Barclay Castle, Aberdeenshire - 27th March 2024 at 10am
including a CUIRASS, PROBABLY NORTH ITALIAN, comprising breastplate in the 'peascod' fashion, formed with shallow neck and arm-openings, separate riveted plate flanged outwards at its base, together with a three-piece backplate formed of a main plate with a riveted articulated plate flanged outwards at its lower edge, both decorated with roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders; together with a GORGET/COLLAR, of two main plates; an ARTICULATED ARM DEFENCE, with pauldrons each of six overlapping plates, the three upper plates extending over the front and back, the elbow cap with turning joints to the vambrace; another PLAUDRON, of six overlapping plates, the upper plate extending over the front and back; a single front VEMBRACE plate, with later leather straps, also a paper auction label dated 1974 and painted inventory number to the interior; and a BURGONET HELMET, with one-piece skull rising to a comb, integral upward pointing riveted peak and neck-guard each with roped inward turn, two hinged cheek-pieces (7)
the breastplate 48cm high
Karen and the late Marc Ellington, Towie Barclay Castle, Aberdeenshire