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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1900; Classification(s): armour, visor, hammered, formed of an upper and lower section joined by modern screws serving as pivots at their rear ends; hammered, shaped, riveted, with embossed decoration; Acquisition: given by Cripps-Day, Francis Henry, 1942-07-03, Given by F.H. Cripps-Day [M.4-1942]
Description: Visor, of grotesque form, for parade use. Formed of an upper and a lower section joined by modern screws serving as pivots at their rear ends. The visor is embossed in the form of a beaked mask cut with apertures for the eyes and fretted with three quatrefoils at its lower end. The beak is formed of two separate plates riveted to the front of the upper and lower sections of the visor respectively. The arms of the visor are also formed of separate plates. The arms of the lower section have restored terminals. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | visor armour Unknown | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1800; end=1900 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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