IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18642 accession number: HEN.M.144-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gauntlet, for the left hand, of fingered form, for field use. Formed of a fairly short, flared, tubular cuff, a wrist-plate, six metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate, a finger-plate, four scaled finger-defences and a scaled thumb-defence. The cuff is formed of an obtusely-pointed, medially-ridged outer plate and a considerably shorter inner plate. The latter is riveted within the former. The lower end of the sixth metacarpal-plate and the knuckle-plate are shaped to the knuckles. The finger-plate is shaped between the fingers. Attached by a leather hinge to the front end of the fifth metacarpal plate is a thumb-defence formed of a medially-ridged, lozenge-shaped main plate and five further scales, matching the finger scales. The rounded ends of the final finger and thumb-scales are decorated with incised chevrons, representing fingernails. The main edges of the cuff are decorated with plain inward turns. The secondary edges of the cuff, the metacarpal-plates, and the scales of the finger and thumb-defences are decorated with single incised lines. A single, transverse incised line also decorates the wrist-plate. The gauntlet has a 'black from the hammer' finish which has been polished away around the upper border of the cuff and in a medial band extending down the cuff to the bottom of the fifth metacarpal, probably to make it match a 'black and white' armour with which it was later associated. Probably part of the same composite armour as HEN.M.138-1933, HEN.M.139-1933 and HEN.M.145-1933. title: gauntlet 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/18642 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a fairly short, flared, tubular cuff, a wrist-plate, six metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate, a finger-plate, four scaled finger-defences and a scaled thumb-defence; hammered, shaped, riveted, with incised decoration on a bright and blackened ground in the 'black and white' fashion hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1610 - 1620 creation date earliest: 1610 creation date latest: 1620 culture: 17th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 14.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.7 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 0.51 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15