‡ A CAP-A-PIE ARMOUR FOR FOOT COMBAT IN THE SOUTH GERMAN STYLE OF CIRCA 1520

comprising close helmet in the Innsbruck court style, with rounded skull rising to a comb, pierced on each side with a flower-shaped series of holes and with large conical plume-holder on the left of the nape, fitted with stepped visor with vision slot pierced and embossed in imitation of eyes, bevor pierced in imitation of a mouth and fitted with an elaborate moustache, and lower bevor shaped to the chin, all attached by common pivots, the skull and lower bevor formed with internally hollowed roped rim to lock over and rotate on the turned upper edge of the collar, the latter formed of four lames front and rear; breastplate formed of single rounded main plate with a shallow neck-opening, flanged outwards at its base to carry a tonlet of seven lames, backplate en suite with the breastplate; two large symmetrical pauldrons each formed of embossed in imitation of three lames; spaudlers of three lames, articulated tubular vambraces each surmounted by a turner and furnished with a winged bracelet cowter of three lames, the central one in each case of bracelet construction; a pair of mitten gauntlets; a pair of gutter-shaped cuisses each fitted with a winged poleyn of six lames; a pair of greaves each of full-length tubular form arched at the front and with an integral sabaton of four lames and of pronounced 'bear's paw' form, decorated throughout with embossed ornament, comprising three vertical panels on the breastplate with a central classical armoured figure above Diana the Huntress, the side panels with grotesque masks and foliage, the pauldrons with armoured mermen, Green man masks and foliage, cowters with bold scrolls of foliage, poleyns en suite with the cowters, the gauntles embossed 'E' and 'S' respectively and the tonlet with the same initial conjoined in the centre: on a wooden stand with base