Fragments of a Rear Fauld for an Armor "alla tedesca" (in the German style)

Dateabout 1510–1515

Mediumsteel

DimensionsMeasurements for fauld: 8.4 × 37.8 × 15 cm (3 5/16 × 14 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.), 15 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

MarkingsStamped with the Rotunda museum artillery-piece logo & "MA 2361" at left terminals; this is a Rotunda error, as this number is correctly assigned to 16/290, now Royal Armouries Museum's inv.# VI.323, shaffron. See digital file for photo.

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

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Object number2014.901

DescriptionRear fauld or culet. Lowest 2 lames with two-thirds of right part of above. Curved to body & widens to bottom. Each lame more-or-less equal depth, dipping in gentle curve to mid-length, terminated in squared off, straight ends. Lames articulated on rough-headed iron rivets and square washers at ends. Basal edge of terminal unturned & bordered with very shallow, narrow recessed band pierced with row of 21 broad-spaced rivet holes for lining rivets, now lost. Decorated with radiating groups of flat, close-set flutes between low, embossed ribs accented by incised lines. Central group of 6 flutes & to either side are 3 groups of 2 flutes each, each group separated by a single broad shallow flute. Top edges of the flutes are scalloped & dentated at broad intervening flutes.
ProvenanceProbably the citadel of the Knights of St. John at Rhodes General J.H. Lefroy Woolwich Arsenal, Museum of Artillery at the Rotunda. Presented to John W. Higgins in April 1930, as part of a lot of some 20 armor pieces, by The Keeper of Woolwich Arsenal. Given to the Museum on July 1, 1954. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.

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