IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18201 accession number: M.13E-1941 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pair of basagues, for field use. Each formed of a circular plate decorated around its edge with a file-roped, partial inward turn and at its centre with a low boss rising in two stages between three concentric raised ribs enclosed by pairs of incised lines, to a large, conical-headed rivet at its apex. The edge is bordered by five and six slotted, round-headed rivets respectively; clearly formed of later screw-heads. One of these rivets has in each instance been replaced and retains beneath its circular internal washer a long, modern, buff-leather suspension-strap pierced with a hole at its terminal. On one of the basagues the hole for the rivet that attaches the strap has broken out and subsequently been repaired with an internal patch secured by two externally-flush rivets. The same basague shows some deformation and cracking at its centre, and lacks a small section of its edge nearly opposite the suspension-strap. Part of the composite Spanish armour M.13A-K-1941. title: besagews NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mr F.H. Cripps-Day STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18201 TECHNIQUES ---------- each formed of a circular plate decorated around its edge with a file-roped, partial inward turn and at its centre with a low boss rising in two stages between three concentric raised ribs enclosed by pairs of incised lines, to a large, conical-headed rivet at it apex; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped decoration and incised lines hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1520 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1520 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 16th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- A Man-at-Arms of the late Fifteenth Century ---