26th Mar, 2024 10:00

SPRING VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION

 
Lot 428
 

428

AN MID 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH CIVIL WAR PERIOD CAVALRY ARMOUR ENSEMBLE

comprising lobster tailed pot the two-piece skull with shallow turned comb, the neckguard of three simulated lames, shallow gulley with turned edge, the rounded peak or visor with similar gulley and turned edge, adjustable nasal bar, pierced ear defences, together with its companion breast and back plates, the former with raised medial ridge drawn down to a shallow peak, linear decoration about the rounded neck and arm apertures, struck with an N over 139 over RR3 for the Commonwealth, the back plate struck with an armourer's mark flanked by N and A for the Commonwealth, re-leathered straps, and complete with its bridle gauntlet, the upper aperture with turned edge and linear engraved decoration tapering down to the articulated hand defence composed of five articulated lames terminating in the knuckle plate. Mounted on its wooden display frame.

Sold for £3,400


 

comprising lobster tailed pot the two-piece skull with shallow turned comb, the neckguard of three simulated lames, shallow gulley with turned edge, the rounded peak or visor with similar gulley and turned edge, adjustable nasal bar, pierced ear defences, together with its companion breast and back plates, the former with raised medial ridge drawn down to a shallow peak, linear decoration about the rounded neck and arm apertures, struck with an N over 139 over RR3 for the Commonwealth, the back plate struck with an armourer's mark flanked by N and A for the Commonwealth, re-leathered straps, and complete with its bridle gauntlet, the upper aperture with turned edge and linear engraved decoration tapering down to the articulated hand defence composed of five articulated lames terminating in the knuckle plate. Mounted on its wooden display frame.

Auction: SPRING VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION, 26th Mar, 2024

Virtual Fine Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria auction. No bidding in person.

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