Armure complète de bataille, en partie d'Augsbourg... - Lot 224 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Armure complète de bataille, en partie d'Augsbourg et globalement Allemagne du Sud vers 1580. A South German full armour for the field, partly Augsburg, comprehensively circa 1580. Comprising a fine close helmet in the Augsburg fashion with tall skull formed in one piece and rising to a prominent narrow comb cabled over the top, both sides pierced with a triangular group of circular holes at the rear, fitted with later decorated brass plumeholder, neck-guard of two lames with turned cabled edge, visor formed with an additional reinforcing layer over the full surface of the brow and the sight almost certainly originally formed with a central divide, upper-bevor pierced with three rows of circular breathes on the left, two rows of slotted breathes on the right, carrying a brass stud engaging the spring-catch locking the visor, together with a sliding catch engaging an aperture in the upper edge of the lower-bevor, the upper-bevor formed with a prominent pointed prow, the lower-bevor with a well defined chin, pierced with a vertical row of three small holes on the right, closed by a hook and eye catch on the right, fitted with two neck-lames en suite with the skull, the visor and the upper-and the lower-bevors all pivoted at a common point, and the helmet studded with domed brass rivets throughout, gorget of four plates front and rear, hinged on the left, closed on the right, the collar lames with finely roped flanged edges and the lower rear lames carrying a pair of moveable spring-loaded pillars for the spaulders, breast-plate formed with a low medial ridge drawn out to a pronounced projecting point towards the base, turned out at the base, formed with a roped flange across the upper edge, fitted with moveable arm-gusset en suite, struck with Augsburg fir-cone mark below the top and fitted with skirt of two broad lames, the lower moving on sliding rivets, associated back-plate with turned roped edges and fitted with skirt of one lame, the latter incised with the Roma