13th-14th century A.D. A solid block of ring armour, possibly concealing an object or objects, consisting of interlocking iron wire links in the basic pattern of four-through-one (one solid ring interlocking with four rivetted), forming alternate sections of welded and un-welded rings; some rings seem to be connected to an iron plate on one side of the armour; possibly of Baltic workmanship. Cf. Kotowicz, P., Muzyczuk, A., ‘Medieval Militaries from Royal Town Krosno’, in Acta Militaria Medievalia, Tom IV, Kraków-Sanok, 2008, pp.125-166, figs.10, 11, 12; Wood, E., Edge, D., Williams, A., ‘A note on the construction and metallurgy of mail armour exhibited in the Wallace Collection’ in Acta Militaria Medievalia, Tom IX, Kraków-Sanok, 2013, pp.203-228, fig.20; Chudzi?ska, B., ‘Military items from the castle in Muszyna (research in the years 2007-2010)’ in Acta Militaria Medievalia, Tom X, Kraków-Sanok, 2014, pp.53-118, fig.8, cat.251. 11.55 kg, 41.5 cm (16 3/8 in.). Acquired 1971-1972. From the collection of the vendor's father. Property of a London, UK, collector. Accompanied by an academic report by military specialist Dr. Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate no.11400-192374. The armour finds a great similarities with ring armour specimens found in the Baltic areas, especially in Poland. The structure of bonding of the every single link is visible in many parts of the artefact. The links were made of flattened wire with the same thickness (0.1 cm) and the main links show a similar external diameter of 1.2 cm, with an internal diameter of 0.5 cm, like some parts in the armour of Krosno and Muszyna. The deficiencies of mail in protection against missile attacks led to an increasing use of reinforcing plates, often connected to the mail parts. This mixture of plates and mail could also be the case of our ring mail armour.