Sallet and Bevor

Description

ID505

Based on an example in the metropolitan museum of art attributed to Lorenz Helmschmid.
This sallet and bevor have features quite unusual in typical German armour of this time, the breathes in the sallet visor and top plate of the bevor hint at the impending development of the 16th C german armet or close helm. While the laminated bevor is almost a precursor of the fully developed gorget, it allows the wearer to tilt there head forward and down but still offers the rigid protection of a regular bevor.

Weight sallet: 1950g. Weight bevor: 850g