Bulletproof Target (shield)
Culture
Southern German
, Nuremberg
Date1600–1610
Mediumsteel, brass, leather, canvas and wool
Dimensions61 × 12 cm (24 × 4 3/4 in.), 17 lb, 3.5 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
MarkingsThere are traces of the Nuremberg view-mark as well as an indistinct maker's mark (probably 'scissors') on the left of the rim face; see digital file.
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.127
DescriptionHammer-rough steel "of proof", now bright. Circular, concave to the body, with faceted edge, bordered by 22 holes for lining-rivets; 19 domed, iron rivets and brass oak-leaf stamped rosettes survive. Remnants of woolen fringe and canvas-like lining within. Four brass mascarons for leather enarmes, which are lost save fragments and two iron rings. Central, onion-shaped, octagonally faceted steel finial near which is proof mark 3/8' in diameter.Provenance(Probably) lot 831 in the 1927 sale of artifacts belonging to H.I. and R.H. Archduke Eugen (Festung Hohenwerfen, near Salzburg) (probably) Clapp and Graham (London) Clarence H. Mackay (Roslyn, L.I.) Gimbel Brothers (NYC) Purchased by Museum on October 31, 1941 from Gimbel Brothers Hammer Gallery (NYC). Numbered #C-61 in Clarence H. Mackay collection. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.
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