IDENTIFIERS
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id:	17970
accession number:	HEN.M.16A-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 8 January 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Zischägge, for light cavalry use. Formed of a one-piece skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking screw, a broad neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces each of three downward-overlapping lames.  The hemispherical skull is decorated with sixteen radiating flutes of V-shaped sections, each decorated at its crest with file-roping and separated by three evenly-spaced, radiating incised lines.  The flutes descend to a recessed border with a vandyked upper edge.  The apex of the skull is surmounted by a radially-fluted conical finial riveted through a large, star-shaped washer.  The main edges of the obtusely-pointed peak and neck-defence each have file-roped inward turns.  The secondary edges of the neck-defence and the cheek-pieces are decorated with a series of filed ogees.  The cheek-pieces widen to their mid-points and then narrow again to their rounded lower ends.  Their upper lames have elaborately fretted ventilation-holes.  The sliding nasal-bar has an elaborately shaped and pierced finial. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.16A-F-1933.
title:	Zischägge

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17970





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a one-piece skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking screw, a broad neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces each of three downward-overlapping lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roping, incised lines, recessed borders and filed ogee decoration
hammering
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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forming

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1630
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1630
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 42.0

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 30.0

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 2.0

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 27.0