IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18000 accession number: HEN.M.17G-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 April 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A pair of gauntlets, for use by a cuirassier. The gauntlets are each formed of a moderately short, flared cuff, a wrist-plate, five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate, a finger-plate, four-scaled finger-defences and a scaled thumb-defence. The cuff is of tubular form with an overlapped and riveted join at the inside of the wrist where its lower edge is markedly cut away in a concave curve. The upper edge of the cuff, which has a plain inward turn bordered by lining-rivets, rises to an obtuse point at the outside of the arm where it is medially-ridged. The lower edge of the cuff overlaps a wrist-plate which is itself overlapped by a series of five upward-overlapping metacarpal-plates. The fifth metacarpal-plate, which is longer than the rest, is overlapped at its lower edge by a knuckle-plate that in turn overlaps a short finger-plate. The last metacarpal-plate, the knuckle-plate and the finger-plate are all shaped between the knuckles and fingers. The cuff, the wrist-plate, the metacarpal-plate, the knuckle-plate and the finger-plate are all connected to one another at their outer ends by modern rivets. Riveted within the finger-plate are four finger-defences formed of between three to six downward overlapping scales secured by rivets to an underlying leather strip. The final scale of each defence has a rounded, terminal and is decorated with a single incised line representing the top of a fingernail. Attached by a broad leather hinge to the sides of the metacarpal-plates is a thumb-defence formed of seven scales that overlap outwards from the fourth and are secured by rivets to an underlying strip. The upper four scales are medially ridged. The lowest scale matches the lowest scale of the finger-defences. A later buff-leather lining glove is riveted within the edges of the gauntlet and sewn to the underlying leather strips of the finger and thumb-defences. Part of the composite three-quarter armour HEN.M.17A-G-1933. title: gauntlets 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/18000 TECHNIQUES ---------- the gauntlets are each formed of a moderately short, flared cuff, a wrist-plate, five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate, a finger-plate, four-scaled finger-defences and a scaled thumb-defence; hammered, shaped, riveted, hinged with raised, incised, etched and file-roped decoration hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1620 - 1630 creation date earliest: 1620 creation date latest: 1630 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown