Gauntlet (part) 17th c.
Cuff and 5 plates covering the wrist and metacarpal. Triple incised lines at the edges of the plates. Central plate underlapping both a small cuff plate and 4 metacarpal plates. Central plate with horizontal raised ridge. Atypically for this date, the rivets include slots on the interior plates allowing for sideways movement. Cuff of a single plate with a riveted overlapped seam at the inside of the wrist. Some rivets lost. The cuff is narrow and almost tubular. The edge of the cuff with a very narrow plain roll. There is a row of small, closely spaced holes inside the roll at the edge of the cuff. It would appear that these would have been used to stitch the glove or lining strip to the cuff in place of the more usual riveted leather band.
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