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Lot 162

A Flemish Close-Helmet From A Funerary Achievement
Third Quarter Of The 16th Century

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Flemish Close-Helmet From A Funerary Achievement
Third Quarter Of The 16th Century

With one-piece skull (three patched internal repairs to the edges) rising to a low notched comb pierced for a spike (securing staple missing) for the attachment of a funerary crest, the front of the skull with a reinforcing plate cusped at the back and notched along the top, pointed visor with stepped horizontal sights with prominent notched lower-edge and bordered by incised lines, a pierced mount on the right fitting into a notch in the upper bevor, pivoted on later dome-headed rivets at the same points as the upper bevor, the latter prow-shaped with recessed turned and notched upper (minor damage at the point) and lower edges, lower bevor shaped to chin, and later riveted single-plate neck-guards fore and aft (plume-holder and hook-catches missing, some light pitting overall, the interior now painted red)
31.5 cm. high

Footnotes

For a similar close-helmet, of the type included in the Pembroke sales of 1921 and 1923, formerly in the Per T. Norheim Collection and sold in these Rooms, see Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 29 April 2010, lot 74

See also a close-helmet on a composite cuirassier three-quarter armour formerly in the Dr. Peter Parsons Collection and sold in these Rooms, 20 July 2011, lot 188

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