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Lot 216*

A 'Spanish' Morion
North Italian, Late 16th Century

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A 'Spanish' Morion
North Italian, Late 16th Century

Of one piece of bright steel with well formed almond-shaped skull (small holes) rising to a pronounced stalk of diamond section, and downturned brim shaply pointed fore and aft and with narrow recessed border and turned and roped edge (minor loss), the base of the skull originally encircled by rivets, all now missing
28 cm. high

Footnotes

Provenance
Christie's London, The Harold L. Peterson Collection of Arms and Armour, 5 July 1978, lot 160
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.

Literature
Harold L. Peterson, Arms and Armour in Colonial America, 1956, pl. 127

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