Production: Unknown
Gauntlet for the left hand, of fingered form, for light field use without a vambrace. Formed of a long, flared cuff, five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate, a finger-plate and four scaled finger-defences. The cuff is formed of an outer plate and a considerably shorter inner plate. The latter is riveted within the former. The outer plate is medially-ridged and rises at its upper edge to a pronounced central point. The upper edge of the cuff has a plain inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing eleven lining-rivets. A twelfth lining-rivet is lost from the apex of the outer plate. The lower edge of the inner plate has a plain inward turn. Riveted within each side of the lower end of the outer plate is a fragment of a leather strap to fasten the gauntlet around the inside of the wrist. The lower edge of the outer plate is overlapped by a series of five medially-ridged, upward-overlapping lames that are decorated with V-shaped nicks at their centres. The lowest metacarpal-plate is overlapped by a knuckle-plate decorated with a file-roped transverse rib of boxed form. The lower edge of the knuckle-plate overlaps a finger-plate which is shaped to the fingers. The cuff, the metacarpal-plates, the knuckle-plate and the finger-plates are all connected to one another at their outer ends by round-headed rivets with octagonal internal washers. Riveted within the finger-plate are four finger-defences formed of between six and eight medially-ridged scales riveted to underlying leather strips. The third scale of the first finger appears to be replaced. Attached within the front edge of the gauntlet by the rivet that connects the fourth and fifth metacarpal-plates to one another is a fragment of the leather hinge that would have served to attach the missing thumb-defence. Part of the composite armour HEN.M.20A-H-1933.
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 13.2 cm
Height: 40.0 cm
Weight: 0.58 kg
Width: 13.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century, Late
Circa
1580
CE
-
1590
CE
South German
The character of the turn at the upper edge of the cuff, and the acid-induced corrosion evident in its accompanying recessed border, suggest reworking, possibly to make the gauntlet better match the gauntlet HEN M.20H-1933, at one time mounted with it.
The gauntlet is bright with a light to medium patination overall.
Strap
composed of
leather
( fragments)
Thumb-defence
composed of
leather
( fragments)
Underlying Strips
composed of
leather
Cuff, Border
Cuff, Decoration
Cuff, Outer Plate
Decoration
Front Edge Gauntlet
Knuckle-plate
Parts
Hammering
: Formed of a long, flared cuff, five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate, a finger-plate and four scaled finger-defences; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped decoration
Forming
Accession number: HEN.M.20G-1933
Primary reference Number: 18059
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: CM.3-1938
Accession Number: C.61-1927
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