Demi-armure de fantassin, Suisse vers 1630.... - Lot 120 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Demi-armure de fantassin, Suisse vers 1630.... - Lot 120 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Demi-armure de fantassin, Suisse vers 1630. A Swiss infantry half-armour, circa 1630. Comprising burgonet with one-piece skull rising to a comb cabled with close-set finely incised lines over the top, fitted with pointed peak, matching neck-guard, a pair of pierced hinged cheek-pieces also matching, the edges turned and cabled en suite with the comb, fitted with modern brass plume-holder and studded with brass-capped rivets and rows of lining rivets on modern rosette washers, gorget of one plate front and rear, characteristically deep for wear independent of armour or outside the cuirasse, the two plates with recessed embossed arrow-head borders, plain turned edges, fitted with hinged spring-loaded pillars for the spaulders (perhaps a later addition), and profusely studded with brass-capped rivets (some early replacements), breast-plate with medial ridge coming to a blunt point at the base, flanged outward at the base, plain turned edges, struck with a mark on the inside (the mark incomplete), and fitted with broad skirt lame (associated), matching back-plate fitted with skirt lame (a good match), a pair of knee-length tassets each of six articulated lames, the borders recessed, the upper five lames with plain turned edges, the lower lames each with cabled edges matching the burgonet, the lower five lames lightly incised with triple linear bands and cut with V-shaped notches along the subsidiary edges, a pair of full arm defences, including symmetrical large spaulders of eight lames en suite with the tassets, including a characteristic Swiss construction of five smaller lames arranged in a fan over the armpits and held by a pin with bronze lion mask boss cast in high relief (some rivets and the lion bosses each replaced), tubular vambraces moving on turners, fitted with winged couters matching the spaulders and the tassets, recessed borders, plain turned edges, the lower-cannons with turned roped edges and hinged inner-plates, and a pair of fingered gauntlets each e
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