Belle et rare armure à cannelures dite «... - Lot 183 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Belle et rare armure à cannelures dite « Maximilienne », globalement Allemagne du Sud vers 1525-30. A fine and rare South German fluted full armour in the "Maximilian" fashion, comprehensively circa 1525-30. Comprising close helmet with one-piece skull drawn-up to a cabled comb in the middle, with an additional comb, lower, left and right, almost all of the remaining surface embossed with four bands of flutes extending from an incised line at the nape and converging over the face-opening, pierced with six pairs of lace holes over the rear, the base of the skull and the base of the bevor boldly flanged as though to turn on the gorget, the rounded flange very unusually extended around its lower edges to attach a pair of fluted neck-plates front and rear, the lower edges boldly turned and roped, the roping matching that of the upper flange, the skull studded with lining rivets at the rear and with further flush-fitting rivets around the face-opening, pivoted bevor formed with a prominent chin, the sides recessed for the visor, pierced with circular holes at the ears and locked by a spring-catch on the right, an additional spring-catch locking the visor, the bevor studded with lining rivets and fitted with later arm supporting the visor, and associated visor of bellows type pivoting at the same points as the bevor and now formed with two pairs of sights arranged in tiers, gorget of four plates front and rear, hinged on the left and closed on the right, the upper plates turned and roped, the lower three plates embossed with fan-like arrangements of narrow flutes widening progressively towards the base front and rear, and the sides each now with three drilled holes and corresponding hooks for fitting a modern crescentic plate over the top of each shoulder, these in turn each carrying a modern fluted beseague, breast-plate and matching back-plate each struck with Nuremberg mark on the inside towards the top, N in a pearled circle, the breast-plate of globose form embossed