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Lot 124

A Close-Helmet
Circa 1570, Almost Certainly English

Antique Arms and Armour
24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£15,000 - £20,000

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A Close-Helmet
Circa 1570, Almost Certainly English

With rounded one-piece skull with tall roped comb with line engraved borders on each side, pointed visor with cusped upper edge and single horizontal stepped sight with prominent roped lower edge, pivoted on rivets with domed fluted heads 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, and with a pierced stud for a locking hook-catch on the lower-bevor (hook missing), the latter shaped to the chin and with a row of lining rivets 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)
33 cm. high

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Provenance:
Almost certainly from Wilton House. See Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue Of Armour, From Wilton House, Salisbury, The Property Of The Right Hon. The Earl Of Pembroke & Montgomery, London, 14 June 1923, probably lot 66

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 two very similar examples sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour ..., 25 July 2007, lot 183 and 1 December 2009, lot 472

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A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
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