Lot 257
A Pair Of German Fingered GauntletsLate 16th Century
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,295 inc. premium
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Late 16th Century
Late 16th Century
Of bright steel, each with flared boxed cuff embossed over the ulna, and with turned and roped outer edge above a fluted ogee-shaped border, six articulated metacarpal plates each with cusped upper edge, embossed and roped knuckle-plates with borders en suite, and all working on dome-headed rivets, shaped finger base-plate carrying overlapping finger-scales riveted to later leathers, and hinged four-plate thumb-defence en suite (polished bright over some pitting overall, some restorations) (2)
30 cm.
30 cm.