Fragmentary Vambrace (forearm guard)
Date1500–1510
Mediumsteel
Dimensions17.4 × 8.5 × 11.4 cm (6 7/8 × 3 3/8 × 4 1/2 in.), 8 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.884
DescriptionSteel, acid-cleaned. Lower cannon of 2 cylindrical halves of oblate section, tapering to wrist. Hinged on outer face with pair of iron hinges riveted near extemities with flat-headed rivets. Hinged forward plate snaps into rearplate along inner edge & secured by natural spring of steel as well as transverse leather strap (missing) from the broad, flattened rivet on the rearplate inner edge, engaging a buckle (now lost, but probably square or parallelogram in shape) riveted to upper-medial area of the forward plate. The bases of the buckle and the hinges are irregularly rounded, those of the hinges flaring outward to the pivot proper. At wrist both halves finished with boxed, plain outwardly turned edges.Provenance(Probably) the Citadel at Rhodes Beshiklash his brother in Paris Louis R. Bachereau (Paris) Dr. Bashford Dean (Riverdale, NY) purchased by John W. Higgins on 28 September 1929 from the estate of Bashford Dean as part of "odd lot 3", price paid for lot. Given to the Armory on 8 January 1947. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2104.
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