Mail sabatons: M.13J-1941

Maker(s)

Unknown (Possibly)

Entities

• Mail sabatons
• pair of mail sabatons

Categories

• Armour

Description

Pair of mail sabatons for display purposes. The right sabaton is of long, tapering form with an obtusely-pointed wider end, and an obliquely-cut narrower end. It is composed entirely of riveted rings of flat section wire, having an outside diameter of approximately 1.0 cm. A few rings are missing and others have been replaced with modern butted rings of circular section wire. The sabaton has been cut from an earlier garment of mail: most probably a mail shirt or sleeve. The sabaton is bright with a variable light to medium patination.
The left sabaton is of rectangular form with an obliquely-cut corner. It is composed entirely of riveted rings of circular section wire, having an outside diameter of approximately 0.8 cm. A few rings are missing. The sabaton has been cut from an earlier garment of mail; most probably a mail shirt or sleeve. The sabaton is bright with a light patination overall. Part of the composite Spanish armour M.13A-K-1941.

Notes

History note: From the collection of Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, Long Island, New York. According to a manuscript note by F.H. Cripps-Day, dated December 1926, in his grangerised copy of G.F. Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms, [section on jacks in volume titled 'mail'], now preserved in the library of the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, 'I exchanged [a jack] with Dean for a Gothic Spanish suit made up. I wanted a Gothic suit but parted with a rare piece'. The jack, from a house in Tonbridge, Kent, is now part of the Bashford Dean Memorial Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mr Francis Henry Cripps-Day.

Legal notes

Given by Mr F.H. Cripps-Day