Unknown (Possibly)
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.
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.
Given by Mr F.H. Cripps-Day
Method of acquisition: Given (1941-06) by Cripps-Day, Francis Henry
20th Century, Early
Circa
1900
CE
-
1930
CE
European or Islamic
Left Sabaton
Length 27.5 cm
Weight 0.17 kg
Width 18.0 cm
Right Sabaton
Length 29.0 cm
Weight 0.09 kg
Width 17.5 cm
Rings
Accession number: M.13J-1941
Primary reference Number: 18225
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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