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Lot 138

A European Cuirassier Helmet
Probably Early 17th Century

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A European Cuirassier Helmet
Probably Early 17th Century

Of blackened russet steel, with fluted ovoidal two-piece skull (some denting) rising to a ring finial on a star-shaped washer, peaked fall with recessed turned edge and waved upper border, and upper-and lower-bevors all pivoted at the same points, the former with vision aperture with central flattened bar and turned, file-roped edge, pierced with three rectangular breaths on either side above a small star-shaped piercing, single neck-plate front and rear with recessed turned border, and bordered by dome-headed rivets
29 cm. high

Footnotes

For a related helmet sold in these Rooms see Fine Antique Arms and Armour from the Henk L. Visser Collection, 28 November 2007, lot 161

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