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Lot 123

A German Close-Helmet
Circa 1520

24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£15,000 - £18,000

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A German Close-Helmet
Circa 1520

Of bright iron, with rounded one-piece skull with low roped comb (minor holes) pierced with four pairs of small holes for lining-laces, and around the back of the neck with dome-headed lining rivets (one missing), on the right a sprung press-button locking-catch for the bevor, later rear neck-guard of a narrow and a wider articulated plate, and bevor and 'bellows' visor pivoting at the same points on each side, the former shaped to the chin and throat, the latter (old riveted reinforce towards the pivots on each side) with waved upper edged and pierced with horizontal vision slits and pairs of ventilation slots, and with lighting peg on the right, the lower edges with recessed turned and roped borders
30 cm. high

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