German artificial iron hand

An image of Armour. Artificial hand. Unknown, armourer, Germany. This is really a surgical appliance, but made by armourers. Iron, circa 1550.

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Armour. Artificial hand. Unknown, armourer, Germany. This is really a surgical appliance, but made by armourers. Iron, circa 1550.

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Accession Number: M.23-1938
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 85
Camera: NIKON D800
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 846 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 80.74kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2014:03:14 14:22:21

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16th Century armour artificial hand Fitz_AA German hands iron iron hand medical medicine metalwork prosthetic prosthetic hand Renaissance surgical

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