Skirt: HEN.M.15D-1933

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Maker(s)

Entities

Skirt
rear skirt

Description

A rear skirt, for use by a cuirassier. The broad, flaring rear skirt is formed of six upward-overlapping lames. The second to sixth lames are each made in two halves with an overlapped and riveted medial join. The first lame, which is deeper than the rest, is angled inwards at its upper edge. The inward-angled section is pierced with a circular hole at its centre, and keyhole-slots to each side, that formerly permitted its attachment to the waist-flange of the backplate. The rear skirt has file-roped inward turns at the main edges, and is decorated with pairs of inicsed lines and filed with nicks, cusps and ogees at the subsidiary edges. Part of the composite three-quarter armour HEN.M.15A-F-1933.

Notes

History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.

Legal notes

J.S. Henderson Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart

Dating

17th Century#
Production date: circa AD 1620

Note

The rear skirt, tassets (HEN.M.15F-1933) and close helmet (HEN.M.15A-1933) are well matched and may originally have belonged to one another, with the exception of the poleyns which are composed of disparate elements and show traces of gilding.

Now is a russet colour overall, but was originally bright or in parts, perhaps blued

Components of the work

Decoration
Parts

Materials used in production

Steel

Techniques used in production

Hammering : The broad flaring rear skirt is formed of six upward-overlapping lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with file-roping, incised lines, filed nicks, cusps and ogees
Forming