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AN ENGLISH PIKEMAN?S ARMOR

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD
AN ENGLISH PIKEMAN?S ARMOR
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 650 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will a
Comprising a cabasset helmet, breastplate and tassets.The helmet of characteristic domed form, with pearstalk finial and narrow brim with rolled border, retaining its brass rosettes. The breastplate is of characteristic form, with fastening hooks at either shoulder and rolled borders at the arms and neck. Incised line decorations follow the cental ridge of the breast and terminate at the peascod, below which a broad flange supports a pair of large tassets, each embossed with lames and an embossed heart flanked by spades, all studded with domed rivets and connected by a pair of profiled hinges secured to the flange by a pair of hooks. All elements retain their black-painted surfaces. Latter 16th century or later.Worn overall.Height of the breastplate and tassets 82 cm.
Condition III