IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18625 accession number: HEN.M.139-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Vambrace, for the left 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, and the central section is broken through at its centre. Its lower edge was originally fitted with two externally flush rivets that engaged and moved within horizontal slots cut in the upper edge of the upper cannon. One of the rivets is now missing. The upper cannon has an overlapped and riveted join at the rear. It is pierced at the front with a later hole. 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 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 fastened at the front by a circular stud and hole. The main edges of the vambrace have file-roped inward turns. The vambrace is decorated with raised bright bands and borders against a blackened ground. Probably part of the same composite armour as HEN.M.138-1933, HEN.M.144-1933 and HEN.M.145-1933. title: vambrace NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18625 TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 20.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 40 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.63 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.7