IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18465 accession number: M.4-1942 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Visor, of grotesque form, for parade use. Formed of an upper and a lower section joined by modern screws serving as pivots at their rear ends. The visor is embossed in the form of a beaked mask cut with apertures for the eyes and fretted with three quatrefoils at its lower end. The beak is formed of two separate plates riveted to the front of the upper and lower sections of the visor respectively. The arms of the visor are also formed of separate plates. The arms of the lower section have restored terminals. title: visor NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 F.H. Cripps-Day STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18465 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of an upper and lower section joined by modern screws serving as pivots at their rear ends; hammered, shaped, riveted, with embossed decoration hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Weight units: kg value: 0.7