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Portions of a Costume Armor
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Steel copper alloy gold, German Augsburg
Rights: Public Domain
Arms and Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Backplate and rump: Gift of Bashford Dean 1924; vambraces: Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness Fund 1926; top lames of vambraces: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection Funds from various donors 1929
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