AUCTIONS IMPERIAL DECEMBER 2020

A VICTORIAN-ERA FULL SUIT OF ARMOR BY SCHMIDT

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Start price: $500

Estimated price: $1,000 - $1,200

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Description

A well-made suit, highly decorated. Handwrought of steel, the helmet with separate visor, with rolled borders throughout, arm and leg assemblies, gauntlets and sabatons well-proportioned and modeled. Covered with etched flowering vine motifs. Late 19th century. From the famous atelier of Ernst Schmidt, Munich, and pictured in Arms & Armor from the Atelier of Ernst Schmidt, Munich (1967: Providence. Mowbray) p. 33, plate 12. Height 183cm. Condition III Stand NOT included