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A Close-Helmet
Circa 1540, Probably English

Antique Arms & Armour
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Close-Helmet
Circa 1540, Probably English

With substantial rounded one-piece skull with prominent roped comb with sprung button locking-catch at the bottom on the right side, and with a tubular plume-holder at the back on the left, pointed visor with waved upper-edge and single horizontal stepped sight, pivoted on rivets with domed fluted heads at the same points at the upper- and lower-bevors, the former prow-shaped with roped upper-edge, cut on the right to accept the lifting-peg, pierced with a circular arrangement of breaths on the right and with a pierced stud for a locking-catch (missing) on the lower-bevor, the latter shaped to the chin, and neck-guard of two overlapping plates front and rear, the lower edges with recessed turned and roped edges, dome-headed lining rivets, and painted black overall
40 cm. high

Footnotes

This is a very good example of the commonest type of authentic helmet found in funeral achievements associated with English churches. There can be little doubt, therefore, that they are of English manufacture. See Guy Francis Laking, A Record Of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, vol. V, pp. 154-273, passim

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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