IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18644
accession number:	HEN.M.145-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Gauntlet, for the right hand, of fingered form, for field use. Formed of a fairly short, flared, tubular cuff, a wrist-plate, five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-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 knuckle-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 four 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 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-plate, 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.144-1933.
title:	gauntlet

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/18644





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a fairly short, flared, tubular cuff, a wrist-plate, five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-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
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1610 - 1620
creation date earliest:	1610
creation date latest:	1620
culture:	17th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 14.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 34.5

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 0.6

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 15.9