Left Vambrace
Artist
workshops of Wolf and Peter von Speyer
, or (Germany)
Artist
Wolf Peppinghorn
(Saxony, Germany)
Dateabout 1590–1600
Mediumsteel, iron and leather
Dimensions49 × 21 × 13 cm (19 5/16 × 8 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.), 4 lb 1 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
MarkingsLeft vambrace has pair of punched dots within, on the lower edge of upper cannon lower half; right vambrace has punched dot at either end of tendon protector outer face, double nick marks on edges of upper cannon lames & single nicks on lower.
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.1175.7
DescriptionLeft vambrace associated to R; it is smaller than the R, and unlikely to be a working-life association. Consists of turner with 2 lames above, upper cannon, cowter with 1 lame above, 1 below; lower cannon of 2 plates. Cowter with separate wing/tendon protector plate riveted to the elbow plate, like the products of the Greenwich shops. There is a threaded hole for the associated reinforce in the side of the elbow-cup. Low medial ridge along rear of arm, no rosette motif. The lower cannon seems unusually long, with indication that it has been cut back and reworked at the flanged wrist opening. The reinforce is not that shown in the Kahlert Photograph.ProvenanceDresden Electoral Armory (possibly) Friedrich August III, King of Saxony Kahlert & Son (Berlin), their no. 87 William R. Hearst Clarence H. MacKay (Roslyn, L. I.) his A-32. Sold with shaffron HAM# 2586.2. Purchased by the Armory from Jacques Seligmann & Co. (NYC), agents for the Mackay estate on 1 April 1940, their A-32/113. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, Janaury 2014.
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