A COMPOSITE NORTH EUROPEAN HARQUEBUSIER'S ARMOUR, MID-17TH CENTURY comprising pot with hemispher

A COMPOSITE NORTH EUROPEAN HARQUEBUSIER'S ARMOUR, MID-17TH CENTURY comprising pot with hemispherical skull formed in two pieces joined medially along a low comb and projecting forward as a broad down-turned peak struck at its left side with an indistinct mark (a shield divided per fess with a star in the base?) and accommodating at its rear a sliding nasal-bar secured at the brow by a rectangular staple and locking-screw, its nape fitted with a plume-holder and narrow one-piece neck-guard embossed to simulate four lames, and its sides fitted with pendent cheek-pieces (restored), one-piece breastplate formed with a medial ridge and a centrally-notched flange at its lower edge, each side of the chest fitted with a stud for the attachment of a shoulder-strap, and one-piece backplate formed with a raised neck-opening and outward-flanged lower edge, and fitted with later scaled shoulder-straps and waist-belt, the former struck internally with a maker's mark and the date 1995, the main edges of the armour decorated with plain inward turns accompanied on the peak and neck-guard of the pot by recessed borders, and elsewhere by incised lines also occurring at the edges of the simulated lames of the neck-guard and down the centre of the backplate, the surfaces of the armour blackened (extensively pitted and re-coloured throughout; each side of the skull pierced with a later pair of holes), stand not included The breastplate and backplate are homongenous and of above average quality. They are probably of Dutch make.