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LOT 0282
Post Medieval Spanish 'Conquistador' Cuirass Set
17TH CENTURY A.D.
16 3/4 in. (3.3 kg, 42.5 cm high).
The breastplate with pronounced vertical rib and two rivets to front, roll at neck and splay at base with rivets to full perimeter, with inked accession numbers '21238A' (crossed through) and 'SDM - EW1' above '1931 - 30 - 6, a' and inked handwritten paper label reading 'Old Spanish Armour (Conquistador) / Found with remains of Spanish Galleon on / the estate of Leakin family (Georgia) coast. / about 1870. Refer to Trinity College Hertford Ct. / for information in Leakin family. / Given originally to Mrs Mark Howden (Hartford Ct.) / [ ] when I was 7 years old. / Luke W Lee 1944' in eight lines and also with chalked 'Old Spanish Armour / from Georgia 1944' inscription in two lines; the backplate generally matching but with vertical groove at centre and no splay at base, with inked accession numbers '31238B' (crossed through) and 'SDM - EW1' above '1951 - 30 - 6, b'. [2]
ProvenanceFrom a Southern Californian museum, with accession numbers.
Ex American collector.
Acquired from TimeLine Auctions, UK, 2018, lot 181.
The Kusmirek Collection, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.204020.
See Calvert, F., Spanish Arms and Armour, Madrid, 1907, for discussion; see also de Hoffmeyer, A., Arms and Armour in Spain, 1982.
FootnotesTrinity College, Hartford was founded in 1823; further research in their archives could provide more information on this cuirass set and the site of the 'Spanish galleon' shipwreck discovered in about 1870.
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