Tasset 1620
for the right thigh. From a Cuirassier armour. Main tasset of 10 plates. The upper plate boxed to fit to the flare at the base of the breastplate and with a keyhole slot to be secured to a stud on the breastplate and a washer that secured the central strap. The bottom 8 plates with a central crease and notched at the top. Detachable poleyne of 4 plates. The third forming a cop. Recessed borders on the sides of the tasset plates. The cop and lower plate without a crease. The tasset retaining some original leathers at the center and inner edge. Poleyne secured to the tasset by a rivet engaging a keyhole slot on the outside and a small turning pin on the inside of the leg. Retains much (possibly original) russet finish. Mounting for original horizontal straps found on the seventh lame of the tasset and the center of the cop. There appears to have never been any strap to secure the terminal lame of the poleyne to the leg. I assume this means that it would have worked like a simple cupped terminal tasset lame since it would never have been worn with a greave. From the Armoury of the Princely House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, removed from Schloss Langenburg.
Thickness: (taken with the slots compressed and leathers pretty flat) inside height 18 in., outside height 20in., top 11 3/4 in. wide, bottom 5 5/8 in. wide.
Thickness varies .039-.060 in. Mostly .045-.055 in.
Weight: 5 pounds 1 ounce (2295 g).
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