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THBWestern European WWI Leather & Iron Mail Splatter Mask
Lot 87b
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Artemis Fine Arts
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Specialty auction featuring axes, mace heads, swords, spears, various types of armor, and more! Many different cultures and price ranges. Great for first-time buyers, seasoned collectors, dealers, and that hard to buy for person on your holiday shopping list. Artemis Fine Arts info@artemisfinearts.com
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Western Europe, probably England or France, late World War I era, ca. 1917 to 1918 CE. A personal protection device known as a splatter mask used by tank personnel during the European campaigns of World War I. The mask consists of a leather panel with slit eye panels meant to protect the vision of the wearer, a protruding nose panel, and a cloth back strap. Lining the cheeks are iron ringlets from which is suspended a dense chain mail skirt to guard the mouth. World War I tanks packed heavy firepower but little in the way of sufficiently protective armor. When an enemy tank shell hit the side of an Allied tank, the interior armoring would fracture into thousands of tiny shrapnel pieces called spalling that would severely injure the tank personnel if not kill them instantaneously. Splatter masks like this example dramatically mitigated the amounts of injuries and deaths caused by spalling and kept the soldiers alive to fight another day. Size: 5.7" W x 3.7" H (14.5 cm x 9.4 cm); (w/ chainmail mesh): 6.375" H (16.2 cm)
Provenance: ex-private Dundee collection, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
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#160807Light abrasions to leather mask, with staining to areas of cloth strap, otherwise intact and excellent. Nice patina to mask and chainmail components. Chainmail mesh does not drape atop tip of nose.Condition
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