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A Composite Close-Helmet From A Funerary AchievementThe Skull Early 17th Century, The Visor Mid-16th Century
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,125 inc. premium
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The Skull Early 17th Century, The Visor Mid-16th Century
The Skull Early 17th Century, The Visor Mid-16th Century
With rounded two-piece skull with roped comb pierced for a funerary crest-spike and with a circular arrangement of holes over the ears on both sides, sharply pointed beak-shaped visor (minor repairs) with two horizontal vision-slits above a prominent roped lower edge with line engraved border beneath, and pierced with a row of keyhole breaths, pivoted on later brass-headed rivets at the same points as the upper- and lower-bevors, the former (later) prow-shaped with double line borders and pierced on each side with two rows of keyhole breaths, the latter shaped to the chin, and with later gorget-plates front and rear with turned borders (surface rust and pitting overall)
32 cm. high
32 cm. high
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Ex Evan Perry Collection








