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A Close-Helmet
Circa 1570, Almost Certainly English

Antique Arms & Armour

1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

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A Close-Helmet
Circa 1570, Almost Certainly English

With rounded one-piece skull with tall roped comb (some small holes) with line engraved borders on each side, pointed visor with waved upper edge and single horizontal stepped sight with prominent roped lower edge, pivoted on rivets with domed fluted heads (one an old replacement) at the same points as the upper- and lower-bevors, the former prow-shaped with turned and roped upper edge, cut on the right to accept the faceted lifting-peg, pierced with a circular arrangement of breaths on the right and with a pierced stud for a locking hook-catch on the lower-bevor, the latter shaped to the chin and with a row of lining rivets on brass rosette-shaped washers extending round to the back of the skull (some incomplete), and neck-guard of two line engraved overlapping plates front and rear, the lower borders with recessed turned and roped edges, and dome-headed lining rivets (some light pitting and old surface patination overall)
40 cm. high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Miss Dorothy Taylor, Graythwaite, Whalley, Lancashire
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue Of Armour, From Wilton House, Salisbury, The Property Of The Right Hon. The Earl Of Pembroke And Montgomery, London, 23 June 1921, lot 92, (illustrated). See lots 358-360 and 415

This is a 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. For a very similar example sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour ..., 25 July 2007, lot 183

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