IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17721 accession number: HEN.M.3D-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 7 January 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pair of tassets, for infantry use, decorated with bands in the 'black and white' fashion. Each formed of six upward-overlapping lames that narrow slightly to their lower end and extend to just above the level of the knees. The lowest lame is deeper than the rest. Its convex lower edge has a file-roped inward turn. The inner ends of the first and second lames are cut away in a concave curve over the crotch. The lames are connected to one another by modern, round-headed sliding-rivets with octagonal internal washers at their outsides, and modern internal leathers secured by single rivets at their insides and centres. Attached at either end of the upper edge of the first lame by a single flat-headed rivet is a modern, double-ended, tongued iron suspension buckle. Riveted within each end of the fifth lame is a modern buff leather strap. The inner strap terminates in a modern, double-end, tongued iron buckle. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.3A-E-1933 title: tassets 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/17721 TECHNIQUES ---------- each formed of six upward-overlapping lames that narrow slightly to their lower end and extend to just above the level of the knees; hammered, shaped, riveted, with banded decoration in 'black and white' fashion hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1590 - 1590 creation date earliest: 1590 creation date latest: 1590 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown