Rare armure complète de bataille pour combattre... - Lot 191 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Lot 191
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Rare armure complète de bataille pour combattre... - Lot 191 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Rare armure complète de bataille pour combattre à cheval, globalement Allemagne vers 1515. A rare German full armour for the field, comprehensively circa 1515. Comprising close helmet adapted within its early working life to rotate on the gorget, the helmet now of armet construction, with broad rounded skull of one piece rising to a strongly fluted cabled comb, fitted with an additional plate flanged for the gorget, fitted with a pair of hinged cheek-pieces closed by a hook and eye at the chin, the flange at the base of the neck-plate and the cheek-pieces decorated en suite with the comb, with associated bellows visor moving on riveted pivots and locked by a spring-catch on the right-hand cheek-piece, fitted with iron plume-holder at the rear, and studded with domed iron rivets, gorget of four plates front and rear, hinged on the left, closed by a stud at the neck and by another at the shoulder, the upper plate front and rear pierced with a row of close-set stitch holes below a plain inward turn, and the rear base plate retaining the original pendant spring-loaded pillars for the spaulders, breast-plate of globose form finely forged, rising to a strong angular flange turned inwards across the top and fitted with moveable armgussets en suite, folding lance-rest, probably the original, fitted with articulated waist-plate carrying a composed skirt of four lames, the upper lame probably homogenous with the breast-plate, and the skirt in turn carrying a pair of short tassets, the lower lames with matching borders and plain turned edges, two original circular beseagues almost forming a pair, each drawn up to a central point and with recessed border and turned roped edge, back-plate of light-weight construction and elegant form, with recessed borders and plain angular raised edges, the waist-straps attached internally and each passing through a slot at the sides, and retaining the original tail-like skirt moving on sliding rivets attached to the back-plate by a non-articul
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