Lot 173

GERMAN COMPOSITE HALF ARMOUR
CIRCA 1650







Auction: 21 April 2010 from 10:00 BST
£7,500
Description
comprising: close helmet with low-combed one-piece skull, flanged outward at the nape with three lames, the plain visor with seven breath holes set in a circle on the right face of the bevor with a lifting bar for the top bevor, above two long narrow sights, the shot proof breast plate with a bullet mark, of tapering pointed waisted peascod form, rolled rope moulding, the matching pauldrons with rope moulded scrolls, tassets of eight lames matching couters with fingered gauntlets, on mannequin
69in. (175cm) high (on mannequin)






