breast-plate
- Museum number
- 1881,0802.42
- Description
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Breast-plate, of steel, in Maximilian style. Of globose form decorated with a spray of twenty flutes and a transverse band of two at the top. At either arm is a gusset, the right one a modern restoration. At the waist is a separate waist-plate, to which is riveted the upper lame of a fauld. The neck and arm edges have boxed, inward turns. At either shoulder is a modern buckle and at either side edge, two rivets and fragments of leather straps, also modern, for attachment to back-plate. At the right side are two holes for a lance-rest. At the centre of the upper edge is a pair of suspension holes. Stamped at the right-side edge is arsenal number 'KX'. The exterior is polished bright, the inside painted black. There is a construction mark of three nicks in the side edge of the main plate, the waist plate and the original gusset. One of the restored straps is in bag at the same location.
- Production date
- 16thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres
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Weight: 2910 grammes
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Width: 381 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Probably from the Radziwill armoury at Nieswiez in Poland/Belarus. Comment and object description by T. Richardson, Royal Armouries (June 2008)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1881,0802.42