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Thursday 21 March 2024 e Friday 22 March 2024, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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An infantry officer's full armour with embossed decoration, 1585 circa

Estimate

€ 18.000 - 25.000

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Information

Germania
height total with base circa 205 cm.
Burgonet worked in two pieces with medium-high crest, pointed brim, replaced nape-guard plate, cheek-pieces with embossed rosette and open-works, reassembled plume-holder. The base of the helmet and the cheek-pieces with brass rivets provided with a rosette. Three-plate gorget, the upper plates with raised and twisted border. Fine breastplate ribbed at the center with angularities at the upper part, provided with well-relieved taupe; the neckline, as well as the gussets, with thick twisted border. Remains of a mark near the neckline. Two loin-guards and six-plate tassets (various restored rivets). Leather strings with brass rosettes. The backplate with the same 'V'-shaped angularity as the breast plate, worked in four pieces. Intact brassards with large shoulder straps (an old restoration at the front wing) both with remains of a mark. Elbow-piece with embossed rosette at the center. Fine gauntlets, the cuff with recessed margin and decorated with a “V” featuring twisted border; full-leg defense with three-plate cuissards featuring twisted and raised border, knee-cop with wing, the central plate embossed at the center. Greave cuisses in good condition with eight-plate shoes, probably from a later period. Mounted on an fine mannequin realized on purpose.

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Condition report

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