IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18649 accession number: HEN.M.149-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gauntlet, for duelling, of fingered form, for the left hand. Formed of a moderately long, tubular cuff, two downward-overlapping wrist-plates, five upward-overlapping metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate, four scaled finger-defences and a hinged, scaled thumb defence. The cuff is closed at the inside by an overlapped and riveted join. Its damaged straight upper edge has a plain inward turn bordered by small stitching-holes. The cuff, the wrist-plates and the metacarpal-plates are connected to one another at each side by sliding-rivets. The finger-scales overlap upwards whereas the thumb-scales overlap downwards. The second wrist-plate, which is repaired with a riveted internal patch at either end, is decorated with file-roped transverse rib. The cuff is decorated at its upper edge with four incised lines, but is undecorated at its lower edge, suggesting that it may be associated with the remainder of the gauntlet which is decorated with triple incised lines. The poorer condition of the cuff relative to the rest of the gauntlet tends to support this suggestion. Some of the finger-scales are decorated with single incised lines, whereas most of the finger-scales and thumb-scales are undecorated suggesting that they are largely associated or restored. Some are certainly restored. title: gauntlet NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Down 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/18649 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a moderately long, tubular cuff, two downward-overlapping wrist-plates, five upward-overlapping metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate, four scaled finger-defences and a hinged, scaled thumb defence; hammered, shaped, riveted, with incised decoration and a transversly-ribbed second wrist-plate with file-roping hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1610 - 1610 creation date earliest: 1610 creation date latest: 1610 culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 33.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 0.37 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10