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Auction archive: Lot number 157

An English Civil War Period Harquebusier's Half-Armour

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,546 - US$3,819
Price realised:
£3,187
ca. US$4,057
Auction archive: Lot number 157

An English Civil War Period Harquebusier's Half-Armour

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,546 - US$3,819
Price realised:
£3,187
ca. US$4,057
Beschreibung:

Of blackened iron, comprising lobster-tailed pot with two-piece skull and low turned comb, pointed pivoted fall (old repairs) with turned edge and three-bar face-guard joined at the bottom to form a blunt point, bluntly-pointed neck-guard of three simulated lames with turned edge, triangular ear-pieces, and dome-headed rivets, breast-plate with shot-proof mark and low medial ridge drawn-out to a small point at the base above a short flange, turned neck and arms, the former struck with armourer's mark apparently 'HK' combined, possibly that of Henry Keene and with the mark of the London Armourer's Company, back-plate en suite and struck below the neck with armourer's mark 'AT', adjustable shoulder-straps (one broken) reinforced with riveted plates, and later buff-leather belt

Auction archive: Lot number 157
Auction:
Datum:
23 Sep 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge
Beschreibung:

Of blackened iron, comprising lobster-tailed pot with two-piece skull and low turned comb, pointed pivoted fall (old repairs) with turned edge and three-bar face-guard joined at the bottom to form a blunt point, bluntly-pointed neck-guard of three simulated lames with turned edge, triangular ear-pieces, and dome-headed rivets, breast-plate with shot-proof mark and low medial ridge drawn-out to a small point at the base above a short flange, turned neck and arms, the former struck with armourer's mark apparently 'HK' combined, possibly that of Henry Keene and with the mark of the London Armourer's Company, back-plate en suite and struck below the neck with armourer's mark 'AT', adjustable shoulder-straps (one broken) reinforced with riveted plates, and later buff-leather belt

Auction archive: Lot number 157
Auction:
Datum:
23 Sep 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge
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