A suit of cuirassier's armour at the time of the Restoration, 1650. Cuirass, helmet, pauldrons and brassarts of blue steel, buff coat, gambado boots and spurs, sword in fringed baudrick on a sash, carabine on a buff belt. In the possession of Llewelyn Meyrick 1650. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.

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