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Lot 136

A German Black And White Comb Morion Bearing The Arms Of The Cooper's Guild
Brunswick Or Cologne, Circa 1600

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A German Black And White Comb Morion Bearing The Arms Of The Cooper's Guild
Brunswick Or Cologne, Circa 1600

With two-piece skull with high roped comb, embossed in low relief on each side with a hand-axe between a set of dividers framed within a circular repeated tongue border, all against a blackened ground, the base of the skull encircled by lining rivets each with pewter rosette-shaped washer, downturned brim curving up to a point fore and aft and with turned notch roped border, and with a pair of later cheek-plates
30.5 cm. high

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Provenance
Christie's South Kensington, Arms And Armour, 18 June 2009, lot 87

For a related morion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 28.195.1) with etched decoration and presumably intended for an officer of the Guild see Stuart W. Pyhrr, European Helmets, 1450-1650, Treasures from the Reserve Collection, 2000, p.33, No. 51

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