A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN THREE-QUARTER FIELD ARMOUR, 16TH / 17TH CENTURY comprising close helm

A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN THREE-QUARTER FIELD ARMOUR, 16TH / 17TH CENTURY comprising close helmet with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high roped comb (patched at its apex) and fitted at the nape with a slashed and gilt plume-holder, forward-sloping visor with stepped and centrally-divided vision-slit fitted at is right side with a small lifting-peg (replaced), upper bevor of blunt prow-shaped form pierced at its right side with nine small circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation, linked by radiating incised lines, and secured by a pierced stud and swivel-hook (replaced), bevor (replaced) fitted at its right side with a fixed slender visor-prop, the visor, upper bevor and bevor attached to the skull by common pivots (replaced), and two gorget-plates front and rear (replaced), collar of three lames front and rear (the first and third at front respectively associated and trimmed, and the first and second at the rear replaced), breastplate of early peascod form with deep neck-opening, shallow arm-openings fitted with moveable gussets, and deep waist-plate flanged outwards to receive a fauld of two lames, the lowest of which bears, to either side of a shallow central cut-out, a long pendent tasset each formed of twelve lames (nine of the left, and five of the right replaced) terminating in winged poleyns of four lames, backplate with broad shallow neck-opening (pierced at its centre with later slot and hole) and waist lame (replaced) flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a culet of two lames (replaced), large symmetrical pauldrons each of seven lames (the top three replaced) connected by a turner to an articulated vambrace formed of a tubular upper cannon, a winged bracelet couter of three lames and tubular two-piece lower cannon, and later gauntlets each formed of a flared and pointed cuff with hinged inner plate, four metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate, scaled finger-defences, hinged thumb-defence with matching scales and artificial leather lining-glove, the main edges of the armour decorated with inward turns, partly file-roped and in some accompanied by recessed borders, and the subsidiary edges in many cases decorated with double or single incised lines (the armour lightly pitted and patinated overall) Stand not included.