Wow, what a beautiful (and exceedingly rare) shield you have now been able to add to your ever growing collection. I am starting to wonder just how much time you have to dedicate to online searching to find all of these treasures you have been finding lately? I have when searching different auction houses on more than a couple different occasions seen undamaged old fittings being offered separately that looked very much (if not exactly) like the damaged ones on this shield. Perhaps sometime in the future you will be lucky enough to find undamaged ones to replace these with. My congratulations to you on yet another great score.
Best,
Robert
P.S. Put me next in line (after Willem of course) in case you get tired of looking at this.
