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Wednesday 25 September 2024 e Thursday 26 September 2024, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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An interesting composite armour, Second half of the 16th Century

Estimate

€ 5.000 - 7.000

Sold

€ 6.875

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Germania
height 119 cm.
Beautiful burgonet with skull in one piece, medium-high comb outlined at the margins and with twisted border (missing part), ribbed and tipped brim with lowered margin and hemmed, twisted border; at the base iron row of rivets; nape-guard plate worked en suite with the brim; movable cheek-piece with ventilation holes; the interior in red, some exfoliation and small restorations; on the visor a monogram "SI" between small "X"-shaped marks. Gorget with twisted neck-plate with wide edging, two smooth plates; the front ones with small carvings in the centre, the lower one with date "1546" above shield with cross and number "N 33", remains of a mark. Ribbed breast-plate with tapul and outlines at the border; the upper part almost straight and with strong, raised and twisted border; movable gussets with borders decorated en suite. Backplate with lowered margin, smooth border and a mark (barely recognizable). Eight-plate pauldrons with lowered margin and twisted border. Two waistplates. Seven-plate tassets, the last one of larger size having a pronounced border and a cross-shaped mark. Mounted on a fine wooden mannequin with carved and coloured head.