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Steel right-hand gauntlet, European, late 1500s.

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Non-wreck Artifacts Start Price:1,600.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Steel right-hand gauntlet, European, late 1500s.
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Steel right-hand gauntlet, European, late 1500s. 739 grams, roughly 11-1/2" x 5-1/2" x 5". Hand-forged, with raised engraving of 16th-century bearded nobleman (possibly the original owner) holding a polearm, with flared cuff, knuckle guard and rope banding that match a pair of gauntlets known to have been made for Philip II of Spain (George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor [1934], page 244), the index finger missing but all the others present and fully articulating (rare thus) despite deterioration of the leather bands and rivets (probably replacements from the late 1800s or early 1900s), also with some surface nickel-plating from the 1920s, but all the main steel parts original and well preserved, and old artifact that fell out of use when firearms came online in the 1600s. Pedigreed to our Auction #4, lot #1014.