IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18135 accession number: M.1.3B-1936 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Collar, for field use, decorated with fluting in the 'Maximilian' fashion. Formed of four upward-overlapping lames front and rear. The top lame in each instance has a prominent, plain, inward turn at its upper edge. The bottom lame in each instance is considerably deeper than the rest and has a slightly convex lower edge with rounded corners. The lames are connected to one another by three internal leathers front and rear. The leathers are attached to each lame by pairs of rivets, all of which are externally flush except on the lowest lame where they are round-headed with octagonal internal washers. Decorative, round-headed rivets occupy construction-holes in the second to fourth lames aligning with the outer of the underlying pairs of rivet-holes for the outer connecting-leathers. The front and rear sections of the collar are connected to one another at the left side by a hinge with cropped corners secured within the top lames by a pair of externally-flush rivets front and rear. The front and rear sections are fastened to one another at the right side by a pair of vertically-aligned, plain, circular studs on the top rear lame engaging a pair of circular holes in the corresponding front lame. The lower of the studs is now missing. The front and rear sections of the collar are further fastened to one another at either side by a turning-pin with an octagonal internal washer on the bottom rear lame engaging a keyhole-slot in the corresponding front lame. Attached by a single externally-flush rivet to either side of the lowest rear lame, on the top of the shoulder, is a long sturdy, hinged stud with a sprung-lug, to engage a hole in the top of the shoulder-defence. Each end of the hinge is decorated laterally with deep, v-shaped nicks, and around its edge with light serrations. The front and rear of the collar are each decorated, except on the first lame, with a medial group of seven flutes and two lateral groups of five flutes, all emphasised by pairs of incised lines and diverging slightly downwards and outwards. Part of the composite half armour M.1.3A-E-1936. title: collar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs E.W. Stead and Mr Gilbert Stead of Dalston Hall, Cumberland. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs E.W. Stead and Mr Gilbert Stead STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18135 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of four upward-overlapping lames front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, hinged with fluted and incised decoration hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming TECHNIQUES ---------- riveting CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 21.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.24 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.6