THE LOWEST FRONT GORGET-PLATE OF A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET, MID-16TH CENTURY; A COUTER, 19TH CENTURY IN THE GERMAN 'GOTHIC' STYLE OF CIRCA 1500; AND THIRTY-FIVE FURTHER PIECES OF ARMOUR, 16TH, 17TH AND 19TH CENTURIES the first of V-shaped form decorated at it lower edge with a file-roped inward edge accompanied by a double recessed border and at its upper with a pair of incised lines (extensively patinated); the second formed in one piece shaped to the point of the elbow between two pair of flutes converging to its inside, pierced at the centre front with a hole and fitted at its rear with a pair of straps (lightly patinated overall); and the third including a besague, the wing of a 'Maximilian' couter, part of a gauntlet and numerous elements of vambraces (in some cases pitted, patinated or later altered) (37) Provenance JWHA Inv. Nos. 927.77, 828.40, 828.2, 828.42, 828.117, 1444.5, 250, 929.33, 828.83,929.34, 929.27, 929.28, 929.32, 929.48, 929.49, 929.30, 929.31, 929.45, 929.51.a & b, 929.53, 927.28, 929.39, 929.2, 928.56.a & b, 929.17, 929.19, 929.8, 929.56.a-f, 928.2, 929.34.a & b, 929.61, 929.44 & 929.23