Does anyone have any other pics or info on this piece?

[Armourkris]

New gauntlets are the next item on my list and while digging through my pictures I found this one. no idea where i saved it from or anything, but the finger gauntlet/bazuband hybrid fascinates me, and since i wear bazubands it seems like it may be something worth looking into. So, does any body have any further information on it?

[Keegan Ingrassia]

Tineye pulled up nothing. Hopefully someone will recognize it and chime in.

[Sevastian]

Don't know where it's from. Sexy as hell though. Late Russian perhaps?

[James Arlen Gillaspie]

It's at the Metropolitan in NYC, European, 17th c. IIRC, don't remember the country of origin. Try on their website.

[Baron Alcyoneus]

You'll find examples of 1 piece gauntlet/vambrace designs in the 16thC, but as bazuband gauntlets, as James notes, it is more common in the 17thC, especially for things like ECW, but I expect they originate in the Near East, like Turkey.

[Tibbie Croser]

I think these are also called "elbow gauntlets." Here's a German pair of 16th-century elbow gauntlets on Wade Allen's site: http://www.allenantiques.com/A-45.html