Production: Unknown
Vambrace, for the right arm, for field use. Formed of a tubular turner, a tubular upper cannon, a winged couter of three lames, and a tubular lower cannon. The turner is closed by an overlapped and riveted join at the inside of the arm where it is fitted with a modern leather loop. At the outside, it is articulated twice along concave lines. The top section of the turner is missing. Its lower edge is bordered by a file-roped rib, the hollowed underside of which locks over the outward-flanged upper edge of the upper cannon. The upper cannon has an overlapped and riveted join at the rear. The couter is formed of three lames that overlap outwards from the second which is shaped to the point of the elbow and furnished with a centrally-puckered oval wing at the front. The lower edge of the second lame is repaired with a riveted internal patch. The tapering lower cannon is formed of an inner and an outer plate: the former fitting within the latter. The two plates are connected to one another at the rear by an internal hinge, and were formerly fastened at the front by a stud and a circular hole. The stud has been replaced by a rivet that now prevents the lower cannon from being opened. The lower edge of the lower cannon and the wing of the couter have file-roped inward turns. The upper and lower cannons have plain inward turns at the inside of the elbow. The upper edge of the turner has a plain partial inward turn. The vambrace is decorated with raised bright bands and borders against a blackened ground in the 'black and white' fashion. Probably part of the same composite armour as HEN.M.139-1933, HEN.M.144-1933 and HEN.M.145-1933.
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 17.3 cm
Height: 39.5 cm
Weight: 1.01 kg
Width: 12.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1560
South German
The bright bands show a medium patination. The intervening blackened areas have been refreshed with black paint.
Decoration
composed of
paint
( black)
Bands And Borders
Ground
Parts
Hammered
: Formed of a tubular turner, a tubular upper cannon, a winged couter of three lames, and a tubular lower cannon; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped decoration, and raised bands and borders against a blackened ground in the 'black and white' fashion
Formed
Accession number: HEN.M.138-1933
Primary reference Number: 18623
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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