Armure flamande à tonne pour le tournoi à... - Lot 72 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Armure flamande à tonne pour le tournoi à pied, assortiment de pièces en partie vers 1560-70. A Flemish full armour, assembled to represent a tonlet armour for the foot tournament, partly circa 1560-70. Comprising close helmet of heavy construction, with one-piece skull embossed with a pair of flutes running over the length of the base of the comb, the latter swept to the rear, cabled over the top and pierced for a crest, visor seated deeply within the upper-bevor, formed with a pronounced sharply pointed prow, the sights with a pronounced angular flange projecting forwards of the upper edges, locked on the right-hand side by a spring-catch engaging the front of the upper-bevor, the latter cut out for the catchpull, lower-bevor engaging the upper-bevor by a spring-catch on the right, a further spring-catch locking the lower-bevor with the skull, fitted with a pair of neck-lames front and rear (the rear neck lames reattached, the front neck lames replaced), with recessed borders and turned ropes edges, and the subsidiary edges all scalloped in the characteristic Flemish fashion, complete with a deep wrapper drawn-up almost to cover the visor pivots, cut out on the right for the bevor spring-catch, fitted with two neck-lames and the edge and the subsidiary edges matching the helmet (the neck-lame re-attached), associated gorget of three lames front and rear, the front lower lame struck with two marks, (one possibly Nuremberg), and the edges now matching the main elements of the armour, breast-plate formed with a medial ridge and the lower edge drawn down to a blunt point, pierced for a lance-rest, the neck with a prominent and boldly roped turned flange, fitted with moveable arm-gussets (the left replaced) and later waist plate with turning pins for the skirt, back-plate with recessed borders and turned cabled edges, scalloped subsidiary edge, and retaining the original waist-plate moving on three sliding rivets and fitted with turning-pins for the skirt, the breast-p