A beautiful armour in Maximilian style dating: Second half of the 19th Century provenance: Germany, A man-at-arms helmet with skull in one piece, hammered, with low, twisted comb featuring wide longitudinal fullers at the sides. Intact visor ribbed at the center, with rectangular eye-holes surmounting the round and convex mouthpiece, provided with a double row of rectangular air holes and outlines. The beaver and the neck-guard with swallowtailed border and roped, twisted border. Closures with pressure-buttons. Helmet with iron rivets. Three-plate nape-guard worked en suite with the skull and with festooned border. The visor's hinges with rosette-shaped head. Gorget with four plates, roped neckline provided with a thick, twisted rope. Bulging breast-plate, with pauldrons and neckline featuring typical, very thick, twisted ropes bent towards the outside. The right side with a folding rest. The back-plate worked en suite with the breast-plate.The front backpiece with three plates, the back also with three plates. Tassets with four plates, both with the lower border featuring a thick spiral. Complete brassards. Pauldrons provided with neck-collar, elbow pieces with big wings. Inarticulated gauntlets decorated with convergent risers. Complete full-leg defenses, provided with sabatons with the same decorations as the other parts; smooth greaves. The whole armor is finely worked with risers and longitudinal fullers; several plates with festooned borders. Complete with leather stirngs, rivets with iron head. The armor is on a mannequin complete with wooden pedestal. Work of a very high quality, that can be compared to the antique original ones. Total height with base: circa 240 cm. height armour circa 174 cm.