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Composite armour, comprising a kettle hat, bevor, breastplate with skirt, backplate with skirt, pair of basagues, pair of gauntlets, two cuisses and poleyns almost forming a pair, pair of greaves, mail shirt, pair of mail sabatons, pair of spaudlers and vambraces.
History note: From the collection of Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, Long Island, New York. According to a manuscript note by F.H. Cripps-Day, dated December 1926, in his grangerised copy of G.F. Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms, [section on jacks in volume titled 'mail'], now preserved in the Library of the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, 'I exchanged [a jack] with Dean for a Gothic Spanish suit made up. I wanted a Gothic suit but parted with a rare piece'. The jack, from a house in Tonbridge, Kent, is now part of the Bashford Dean Memorial Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mr Francis Henry Cripps-Day.
Given by Mr F.H. Cripps-Day
Method of acquisition: Given (1941-06) by Cripps-Day, Francis Henry
15th Century-16th Century#
20th Century, Early
Circa
1480
CE
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1520
CE
Circa
1900
CE
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1930
CE
Mainly Spanish or Western European, backplate from Nuremburg, South Germany
Accession number: M.13-1941
Primary reference Number: 18186
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: M.1.1A-H-1936
Accession Number: HEN.M.24A & B-1933
Accession Number: HEN.M.4A-D-1933
Accession Number: M.1.4A-E-1936
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