AN ITALIAN VAMBRACE FOR THE RIGHT ARM, EARLY 17TH CENTURY formed of a tubular upper cannon closed by rivets at its rear, fitted at its upper end with a turner of three lames (partly disarticulated), and connected by a winged bracelet couter of three lames at its lower end to a tubular lower cannon opening at the front, the wing of the couter formed separately and probably representing a working-lifetime modification, the main edges of the vambrace formed with plain inward turns bordered by trios of incised lines repeated at all subsidiary edges, and the whole retaining much of its black-from-the hammer finish (extensively pitted and scratched) Provenance Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, purchased from his estate 28 September 1929 JWHA Inv. No. 927