formed of three lames front and rear, the third of them in each case deeper than the rest, the first formed at its upper edge with a prominent file-roped inward turn, the front and rear sections of the collar joined at the left by an internal hinge at their upper ends and a pivoting-rivet at their lower ends, and fastened to one another at the right by a plain stud and hole at their upper end and a mushroom-headed stud and keyhole-slot at their lower ends, and the lowest front plate pierced with a key-hole slot for the former attachment of a spaulder (with a mottled overall corrosion), 16.0 cm

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.