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Lot 105

An Ottoman gold-damascened steel helmet
Turkey, 16th Century and later

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,280 inc. premium

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An Ottoman gold-damascened steel helmet
Turkey, 16th Century and later

the conical steel skull rising to a button finial cut with flutes, and retaining traces of original gold damascening overall, brim with applied brass border embossed with roundels and pierced for the avantail of riveted and split rings, later adjustable nasal bar
21.5 cm. high

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Provenance
Bonhams, Fine Antique Guns, 24 November 1999, lot 83.
Private UK collection.

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