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Thursday 12 December 2024 e Friday 13 December 2024, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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A cavalry composite armour

Estimate

€ 5.000 - 7.500

Sold

€ 6.250

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

height circa 68 cm.
Two-plate gorget, with brass-headed rivets, at the neckline a thin, twisted roping. Eight-plate asymmetrical pauldrons with hemmed, notched borders, brass rivets, roped the external margins, the main plates decorated with spiral risers. Iron chest-plate (restorations), strongly ribbed at the centre, with a hole for the rest on the right; thick roping at the neckline, smooth the arm-holes; complete with waist-plate. Four-plate tassets, held together by buckles and leather straps. The brassards fastened with nail, the elbow-pieces with hemmed, notched borders, the vambraces openable in two parts. Knuckle-plate with pointed, ribbed cuffs with recessed borders, scaled back and fingers.