formed of a medially-ridged main plate strongly shaped to the chin and flanged outwards at its base to receive a broad gorget-plate, the latter pierced at its right side with a key-hole slot, and fitted at its upper edge with a chevron-shaped face-plate (detached and internally patched at its centre, the whole showing areas of scattered pitting throughout)

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

For similar bevors from the armoury of the Knights of St John at Rhodes see Richardson and Karcheski, 2000, pp. 32-50.

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.