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Lot 220*
A South German Close-HelmetCirca 1510, Perhaps Innsbruck
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,750 inc. premium
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Circa 1510, Perhaps Innsbruck
Circa 1510, Perhaps Innsbruck
Of bright steel, with flattened one-piece skull (old repairs) formed with broad flutes each with a single incised line on each side, stepped visor with two blunt points (lifting peg missing), and horizontal sight divided centrally above fifteen circular breaths arranged in triangular groups, bevor shaped to the chin (holed on one side and now bolted on the right side to the base of the skull), and later neck-guard of two plates, the visor and bevor pivoting at the same points, the bottom edges of the tail-guard and bevor each with a plain inward turn (surface pitted overall)
25 cm. high
25 cm. high
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Provenance
Christie's London, The Harold L. Peterson Collection of Arms and Armour, 5 July 1978, lot 178
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.








