COMPLETE SUIT OF ARMOUR German, ca. 1580. Suit of armour in shiny iron with brass rivets, complete in all its parts, comprising burgonet, one-piece skull with tall comb, neck guard, cheek guards, two-part collar, breast plate, pauldrons, gauntlets, faulds, cuisses, fan -plates, poleyns, greaves, sabatons. Carefully restored and leathering renewed. Stand included. H 174 cm. Provenance: - Auction Galerie Fischer Lucerne, 2011, Lot No. 290. - Swiss private collection. This type of armor is called light field armor in the literature. Also commonly used armor in the Swiss Confederacy among officers with the rarely-present leg protection, elegant design; in a rare state of completeness. Cf. Harnische im Alten Zeughaus Solothurn, Rudolf Wegeli: Katalog der Waffen-Sammlung im Zeughause zu Solothurn, 1905.

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