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A Rare English Civil War Period Siege Helmet

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Lot 174W
A Rare English Civil War Period Siege Helmet
Mid-17th Century

Sold for £ 2,880 (US$ 3,421) inc. premium

Antique Arms and Armour from the Dr
Peter Parsons Collection

20 Jul 2011, 14:00 BST

London, Knightsbridge

A Rare English Civil War Period Siege Helmet
Mid-17th Century
Of blackened iron, with heavy two-piece rounded skull, pivoted peak with rounded recessed turned edge and three-bar face-guard joined at the bottom to form a curved leaf-shaped terminal with a small scroll at the end, associated long bluntly-pointed neck-guard, and curved robust shoulder-plates each carried by two bars of square section riveted to each side of the base of the skull
48 cm. high

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Christie's London, Antique Arms And Armour, 20 October 1982, lot 69

    For another example in the Pitt-Rivers Collection see Charles Ffoulkes, European Arms And Armour In the University Of Oxford, 1912, p. 61, no. 183, pl. XVIII
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  1. David Williams
    Specialist - Arms and Armour
    Bonhams
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    London, United Kingdom SW7 1HH
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