IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18073
accession number:	HEN.M.21B-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 8 January 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Backplate, for use by an harquebusier. Formed in one piece with a narrow, upward-flanged neck-opening, and a short flange at the waist.  Its arm-openings, neck-openings and waist-flange have plain, inward turns bordered by single incised lines.  The turns at the neck-opening and the waist-flange are also bordered by round-headed lining-rivets.  Attached by a pair of round-headed rivets at each shoulder beneath an old but probably not original scale, is a modern leather shoulder-strap.  Each strap terminates in a long, modern plate pierced with two circular holes to accommodate the mushroom-headed studs of the breastplate.  Each side of the backplate is pierced with a pair of horizontally-aligned holes for the attachment of a waist-belt.  A round-headed rivet that occupies the inner of each of the pair of holes, retains the modern straps that now form the waist-belt.  The right strap terminates in a single-ended, tongued iron buckle.  A modern, vertical suspension-slot is pierced between the shoulder-blades. Part of the incomplete half-armour HEN.M.21A-C-1933.
title:	backplate (body armour)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18073





TECHNIQUES
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formed in one piece with a narrow, upward-flanged neck-opening, and a short flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with incised lines
hammering
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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forming

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1630 - 1630
creation date earliest:	1630
creation date latest:	1630
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 15.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 37.2

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.98

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 34.3