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‡ A RARE MAIL GROIN DEFENCE, SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GERMAN composed entirely of riveted iron rings of half-round-section wire, with slanting lateral edges and shaped to the groin (very small losses) Provenance Wallis and Wallis, 28th June 1968, lot 1922 Howard M. Curtis (no. 218) A portion of a related example formerly in the armoury of the Princes Radziwill at Niescwicz Castle, Poland, is now preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. No. 27.183.14).

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‡ A RARE MAIL GROIN DEFENCE, SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GERMAN composed entirely of riveted iron rings of half-round-section wire, with slanting lateral edges and shaped to the groin (very small losses) Provenance Wallis and Wallis, 28th June 1968, lot 1922 Howard M. Curtis (no. 218) A portion of a related example formerly in the armoury of the Princes Radziwill at Niescwicz Castle, Poland, is now preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. No. 27.183.14).

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