A COMPOSITE NORTH EUROPEAN HARQUEBUSIER'S ARMOUR, MID-17TH CENTURY comprising German Zischägge with hemispherical one-piece skull decorated with a pattern of six radiating ribs, its apex fitted with a pierced finial and circular washer, its brow with a flat peak struck at the front with the letter 'M' and accommodating at its rear a sliding nasal-bar secured at the brow by a rectangular staple and locking-screw, its nape with a deep neck-guard of four lames and its sides with pendant cheek-pieces, each narrowing to its lower end and pierced at its centre with seven circular ventilation-holes, heavy one-piece English breastplate of duplex construction formed with a medial ridge, a V-shaped waist-line, a raised neck-opening and an outward-flanged lower edge, each side of the chest fitted with a stud for the attachment of a shoulder-strap, the left of the belly bearing the proof-mark of a bullet and the centre of the neck-opening struck with the crowned IR government ownership mark of the time of James II and the maker's mark EO, and one-piece backplate formed with a raised neck-opening and an outward-flanged lower edge, and fitted with later scaled shoulder-straps and waist-belt, the former struck internally with a maker's mark and the date 1994, the main edges of the armour decorated with plain inward turns (pitted and patinated throughout; the backplate with some later blueing; the nasal-bar and associated fittings of the Zischägge replaced, and the front suspension-leather of its right cheek-piece severed), stand not included The mark on the breastplate is that of the Warwickshire-born Edward Oxendon or Oxington who was apprenticed to the London armourer Edward Ansley for eight years commencing 1623. He became a freeman of the Armourers' Company in 1631. In 1648/9 it paid him for six days' work making arms. He is recorded as Court Assistant of the Company in 1658 and Master in 1667 (Richardson 2004, pp. 66-7). A further duplex breastplate by Oxendon is in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, Inv. No. II. 228. For a discussion of this type of breastplate, see de Reuck, et al 2005.
A COMPOSITE NORTH EUROPEAN HARQUEBUSIER'S ARMOUR, MID-17TH CENTURY comprising German Zischägge with hemispherical one-piece skull decorated with a pattern of six radiating ribs, its apex fitted with a pierced finial and circular washer, its brow with a flat peak struck at the front with the letter 'M' and accommodating at its rear a sliding nasal-bar secured at the brow by a rectangular staple and locking-screw, its nape with a deep neck-guard of four lames and its sides with pendant cheek-pieces, each narrowing to its lower end and pierced at its centre with seven circular ventilation-holes, heavy one-piece English breastplate of duplex construction formed with a medial ridge, a V-shaped waist-line, a raised neck-opening and an outward-flanged lower edge, each side of the chest fitted with a stud for the attachment of a shoulder-strap, the left of the belly bearing the proof-mark of a bullet and the centre of the neck-opening struck with the crowned IR government ownership mark of the time of James II and the maker's mark EO, and one-piece backplate formed with a raised neck-opening and an outward-flanged lower edge, and fitted with later scaled shoulder-straps and waist-belt, the former struck internally with a maker's mark and the date 1994, the main edges of the armour decorated with plain inward turns (pitted and patinated throughout; the backplate with some later blueing; the nasal-bar and associated fittings of the Zischägge replaced, and the front suspension-leather of its right cheek-piece severed), stand not included The mark on the breastplate is that of the Warwickshire-born Edward Oxendon or Oxington who was apprenticed to the London armourer Edward Ansley for eight years commencing 1623. He became a freeman of the Armourers' Company in 1631. In 1648/9 it paid him for six days' work making arms. He is recorded as Court Assistant of the Company in 1658 and Master in 1667 (Richardson 2004, pp. 66-7). A further duplex breastplate by Oxendon is in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, Inv. No. II. 228. For a discussion of this type of breastplate, see de Reuck, et al 2005.
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