IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17712 accession number: HEN.M.2C-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 14 September 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Breastplate for light field use, decorated with bands in the 'black and white' fashion. Formed in one piece, in the late 'peascod' fashion, with a flange at the waist. Its arm and neck-openings have plain, inward turns. Modern, single-ended, tongued iron buckles to receive the shoulder-straps of a backplate are secured by single, flat-headed rivets at each shoulder. Attached at each side of the waist-flange by single, round-headed rivets with octagonal or square internal washers, are three leather straps for the suspension of tassets. Holes pierced to the inside of the inner and outer rivets at each side probably represent former attachment points for the straps. Part of the composite half-armour HEN.M.2A-E-1933 title: breastplate (body armour) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17712 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one piece, in the late 'peascod' fashion, with a flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, with banded decoration hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1610 - 1610 creation date earliest: 1610 creation date latest: 1610 culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 18 dimension: Height units: cm value: 44 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 2.17 dimension: Width units: cm value: 36.5