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A PRUSSIAN ARTILLERY OFFICER'S SABRE with etched blade, regulation brass stirrup hilt, wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its steel scabbard with two brass mounts for sling swivels (worn) 80.5cm; 31N in blade (2) £200-250 | Nil |
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| 272 | A GERMAN OFFICER'S SWORD, LAST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with regulation curved fullered blade, brass stirrup hilt with plain square langets, and fishskin-covered grip (losses), in its scabbard (worn) 77cm; 30D in blade £150-200 | Nil |
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| 273 | A GERMAN MAMELUKE-HILTED SWORD IN THE TURKISH TASTE, 19TH CENTURY with curved fullered blade, brass cross-piece with globular terminals, and horn grip rising to a swollen pommel, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with large brass mounts (worn throughout) 60.5cm; 23N in blade £300-400 | Nil |
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| 274 | FOUR FRENCH CHASSEPOT BAYONETS two dated 1869 and two dated 1874, in their scabbards (4) £120-180 | Nil |
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| 275 | AN AUSTRIAN MODEL 1798/1809 INFANTRY HELMET of leather, with a tall comb bound with brass (fur crest and plume missing), brass helmet plate embossed with the initials 'F II' for Franz II (1792-1835) and with the letter 'D' on the corner, a pair of brass cockades, brass-mounted peak, and a pair of leather ear-defences with a thong for securing under the chin ( areas of wear) 31cm; 12D in high £500-600 | Nil |
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800 |
| 276 | A GERMAN CAMPAIGN WATER BOTTLE, 19TH CENTURY with leather-covered glass body, and retaining a portion of its carrying straps; A CARVED WOODEN FLASK, and A German POWDER-FLASK, 18TH CENTURY, of flattened cow horn the first: 22.5cm; 8K in high (3) £80-100 | Nil |
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85 |
| 277 | A PAIR OF HANOVERIAN EPAULETTES, 19TH CENTURY each with gold bullion fringes, fitted with gilt buttons, padded red felt undersides, and contained in their original box, the lid stamped 'Wilhelm Stahl, Dusseldorf' (the rank badges removed); A PAIR OF EPAULETTES, 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HANOVERIAN, each with a large applied white metal crescent, silver bullion fringes, and with padded white felt undersides, in their original case (the case worn) (2) £300-400 | Nil |
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200 |
| 278 | AN OFFICER'S TUNIC of blue cloth, with red collar, silver bullion epaulettes, each with blue chevrons and applied with a pair of star-shaped buttons, and with plain copper buttons at the front £350-450 | Nil |
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| 279 | A PRUSSIAN OFFICER'S GREATCOAT of field grey cloth, with red-lined blue collar, and brass buttons decorated with the Imperial crown £200-250 | Nil |
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| 280 | A PRUSSIAN OFFICER'S GREATCOAT of field grey cloth, with blue collar fitted with a pair of red straps, and with plain copper buttons throughout £150-200 | Nil |
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| 281 | A PRUSSIAN DRAGOON OFFICER'S PICKELHAUBE with leather skull fitted with round spike on a cruciform base retained by fluted star-shaped rivets, gilt-brass helmet plate and chin-scales, the latter retained by a black cockade on the left and a red cockade on the right, retaining much original gilding throughout (the leather with cracks, minor wear and losses): its original leather case 23.5cm; 9D in high £1200-1800 | Nil |
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2000 |
| 282 | A PRUSSIAN LANCE CAP FOR AN OFFICER OF THE WESTPHALIAN NO. 5 LANCER REGIMENT with padded leather skull, white metal helmet-plate, the finial with white felt underside, trimmed in silver and blue piping and complete with its chin-scales (cockades incomplete, areas of wear and fading): in its original leather case 15.2cm; 6in high £1000-1200 | Nil |
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| 283 | THE SILVER-MOUNTED DRESSING CASE OF CAPTAIN S.G. HARDING, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1914-15 including two ivory-mounted razors, boot-hooks, scissors, numerous pill boxes, and powder containers, the silver lids engraved with the owner's crest, contained in a two-tiered velvet-lined case veneered in rosewood, the corners bound with brass and the lid fitted with an escutcheon engraved with the owner's initials, and retaining part of its original leather cover embossed 'Captain S.G. Harding' (one pillbox chipped) 'Lieut. Harding is the Regimental Survey Officer of 53 Heavy Regiment RA. On 24th Oct. 44 he was ordered to survey four battery positions in the region of Schindel to enable the Regiment to harass the enemy retreating across the river Maas. While on his reconnaissance his jeep was blown up by a mine and his driver was killed. Although suffering from severe shock and injuries, Lieut. Harding completed his task and the positions were ready for occupation by the guns that evening.' Taken from Army Form W.3121. Lieutenant S.V.G. Harding was mentioned in despatches, 4 June 1946. His Second World War group were sold Morton & Eden, 13th December 2005, lot 135. £500-600 | Nil |
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| 284 | A GROUP OF THREE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF AERONAUTICAL INTEREST COVERING THE PERIOD 1928-40 (3) £120-180 | Nil |
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280 |
| 285 | A fine and rare SOUTH GERMAN composite tourney ARMOUR, AUGSBURG CIRCA 1580, THE CUIRASS STRUCK WITH THE SO-CALLED TRISKELES MARK OF ANTON PEFFENHAUSER comprising close helmet of heavy make formed of a one-piece skull rising to a high roped comb, fitted at the nape with a brass plume-holder decorated with arabesque interlace (its right arm cracked through) and pierced to either side of it with a pair of lace-holes for the rear ends of the internal cross-straps, each fitted with a brass eyelet (one missing), visor, upper bevor and bevor attached by common pivots (the right replaced, the left missing), each secured at the right side by a spring-catch, that for the visor lacking its combined pull and lifting-peg, that for the upper visor of sliding form, that for the bevor locked by a swivel-hook, visor of 'frog-mouthed' form with a centrally-divided vision-slit, prow-shaped upper bevor pierced at the right side with twenty-eight small circular ventilation holes, and three articulated gorget-plates front and rear, the front ones descending to an obtuse central point, the helmet retaining many of the internal lining-bands, breastplate of deep 'peascod' from, finely roped at the neck and stamped with the triskeles mark beneath, moveable gussets at the arm openings (the left associated), associated hinged lance-rest attached by two screws, fauld of one lame and pendant tassets each of three upward-overlapping lames, matching backplate formed in one piece with projecting flange at the waist, the breastplate and backplate joined by hinged hasps and studs at their sides, and each struck internally with the pearled A mark of the city of Augsburg, a pair of large characteristic asymmetrical pauldrons, the right with a narrow front, formed of seven upward overlapping lames, the left with a broad front, formed of six upward-overlapping lames, vambraces of fully articulated construction, each formed of a tubular upper and lower cannon, the former fitted with a turner of three lames, and a winged bracelet-couter of three lames, right gauntlet formed of a flared and slightly pointed cuff with a fixed inner plate, boxed at its lower end, an articulated inner wrist-lame, seven upward-overlapping metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate and four scaled finger-defences sewn to an underlining leather glove (thumb-defence missing), cuisses each of four upward-overlapping lames, separated between the third and fourth, and fixed at their lower ends with winged poleyns of five lames overlapping outwards from the third, and tubular greaves each cut at the heel with a slit to accommodate a spur, and at the front with an arch to receive an integral sabaton of eight lames that overlap inwards to the fourth, the last forming a toe-cap that narrows to its end, the armour decorated at its main edges with file-roped inward turns (areas of pitting and heavy patination throughout, the greaves, sabatons and tassets possibly restored, the straps with some disarticulations), stand not includedThe armour is of a kind worn in the tourney which originally took the form of a mock battle fought between two teams of mounted contestants armed with rebated lances and swords. However, by the late 16th Century it had evolved into a simpler sport, often referred to by modern writers as the tourney course, in which individual mounted contestants fought with rebated swords alone.The triskeles or triquet mark is the coat-of-arms of the celebrated Augsburg armourer Anton Peffenhauser (recorded 1545-1603). It is seen on his etched iron epitaph, formerly in an Augsburg church, inscribed Master Antonius Peffenhauser with his two wives and fourteen children. This armour is related to another by this armourer, also struck with the triskeles mark, preserved in the Wallace Collection, no. A45. Together they may have formed part of a series ordered from Peffenhauser for the Bavarian Electoral armoury in 1579. The present armour is also struck with a number of marks related to the Wallace Collection example, including dots, crescent-shaped marks and the fir cone mark of the City of Augsburg. These are found on the bevor, the gorget, the pauldrons, and the cuisses. The pearled A mark is found inside the cuirass as already noted, inside both cuisses and inside the right-hand pauldron (the latter is rubbed and largely obscured). See J. Mann 1962, p.54, A.V.B. Norman 1986, p.19, A. von Reitzenstein 1975, pp.72-77, and 1971, pp.111-127. £35000-45000 | Nil |
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| 286 | A COMPOSITE GERMAN FLUTED FIELD ARMOUR IN THE SO-CALLED MAXIMILLIAN FASHION, CIRCA 1515-1530 comprising close helmet formed of a rounded one-piece skull rising to a low roped medial comb, bellows visor and bevor attached by later common rivets, the former roped at the front of the step beneath its centrally divided vision slit, pierced with ten horizontal ventilation slots and fitted at is right side with a short lifting peg (replaced), the latter flanged outwards at its lower to form a short front neck-guard (lower right corner with a small welded repair) and secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a spring-catch (replaced), and rear neck-guard of three lames (each with a welded repair at the left end), collar of four lames front and rear (originally of 'almain' type), the top lames finely etched with foliate scrolls on a stippled ground (one lame at each side modern), breastplate formed of a rounded main plate with detachable folding lance-rest, movable gussets at the arm-openings, waist-lame and fauld of the two separable lames (the first associated, the second restored), and tassets each of four lames, backplate formed of a main plate with a pair of side plates and a waist-lame (associated) flanged outwards to form a short culet cut with a shallow notch at the centre of its lower edge, the main plate struck at its upper edge with the quality control mark of the city of Nuremberg, long spaudlers, each of seven lames overlapping outwards from the third, and articulated by transverse sliding-rivets to fully articulated vambraces formed of a tubular upper and lower cannon fitted at the inside of the elbow with a narrow lame, and a couter of three lames, the central lame projecting inwards at the front as a large flat oval wing with a medial pucker (the spaudlers and vambraces with internal patches), a pair of later circular besagews each with an applied conical boss at its centre, gauntlets each formed of a short straight-ended cuff with a hinged inner plate, five metacarpal-plates in the case of the left one and six in the case of the right, a knuckle-plate decorated with a roped transverse rib, five finger-plates in the case of the left one and eight in the case of the right, and a hinged thumb-defence (the right restored) terminating in a pair of scales (the gauntlets not a pair), cuisses each formed of a gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper edge with a crescentic extension-plate and its lower edge with a winged poleyn of four lames (associated, not a pair, internal repairs), tubular full-length greaves each pierced at the heel with a pair of holes for attaching a spur and cut at the front with an arch to accommodate a sabaton of nine lames overlapping inwards towards the fourth, the last forming a toe (the sabatons associated and possibly later), the armour decorated throughout with boldly fluted ornament framed in many cases by incised lines, and at its main edges with boldly roped inward turns, accompanied by recessed borders in most cases (showing some pitting and wear overall, especially on the helmet, vambraces, gauntlets and cuisses): on a wooden mannequin with a moulded rectangular wooden base PROVENANCE The greaves and sabatons: Sir Edward Barry, Ockwells Manor, Berkshire, sold Sotheby's 5 July 1965, lot 33 John. F. Hayward, sold Sotheby's, London, 1st November 1983, lot 28 EXHIBITED The Art of the Armourer, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 19 April - 5 May 1963, Cat no. 4, p.9. £50000-70000 | Nil |
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50000 |
| 287 | A COMPOSITE GERMAN CUIRASSIER'S ARMOUR BY THE MASTER HM OF NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1620 comprising collar formed of a single plate front and rear, associated one-piece pikeman's breastplate struck with a maker's mark (indistinct), flanged outwards at its V-shaped waist to receive a pair of long tassets each of fourteen lames separable between the fourth and fifth, and terminating in a poleyn of five lames with a small side wing issuing from the third, associated one-piece backplate with outwardly flanged lower edge and struck with a maker's mark (indistinct), large symmetrical pauldrons each of nine lames overlapping outwards from its fourth, the latter decorated at the front and rear with groups of brass-capped rivets arranged in concentric circles, and connected by a turner decorated at its upper edge with a triangular boss to three-piece vambrace formed of tubular upper and lower cannons, the lower of 'tulip-shape', narrow bracelet-couter articulated by a pair of internal leathers, two gauntlets (not a pair) each formed of a flared and obtusely-pointed cuff with a fixed inner plate, a wrist lame, the left with five metacarpal-plates and the right with six, a shaped knuckle-plate, scaled finger-defences and winged thumb-defence terminating in matching scales, each fitted with an old lining-glove of canvas and a later internal wrist-strap, all elements painted black over an early blackened finish (partly worn), decorated at the main edges (except for the cuirass) with plain inward turns accompanied by recessed border, the subsidiary edges with bright bevels accompanied by single incised lines, and struck with the quality control mark of the city of Nuremberg accompanied by the maker's mark (except the cuirass), within a shield the initials HM over a winged cherub's head (the backplate with short cracks at neck and left arm-opening; the left pauldron and turner slightly disarticulated, buckles and minor fittings replaced throughout) It would appear from surviving examples of marked pieces that the Master HM was active from the late 16th to the early 17th Century. His mark is on a morion in the Wallace collection, London, Cat No. A114, forming part of a series made for the guard of the Elector August of Saxony (1553-86). However, this may have been added during the reign of his successor Christian I (1586-91). It can further be recorded on armours in the armouries at Schwarzburg, Cat No. 14, Solothurn, Cat No.116, and the Musee de l'Armee, Paris, Inv No. G23, as well as a burgonet in the Deutsches Historiches Museum, Berlin, Inv No. W652, a gauntlet formerly associated with the armour Inv No. II.33 in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, three pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and another in the helmet museum, St. Petersberg (See J.G. Mann, 1962, p.116, C.J. Ffoulkes, Vol 1 1916, p.117, and H. Muller & F. Kunter, 1989, p. 182 & 271). £10000-12000 | Nil |
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| 288 | A GERMAN INFANTRY ARMOUR (KNECHTISCHER HARNASCH), NUREMBERG, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY comprising burgonet with two-piece skull joined by a roped comb, formed with pointed peak struck with an ownership mark, a pair of crossed sword, 'almain' collar, comprising gorget formed of three plates front and rear, stamped with Augsburg control mark on the front lame, spaudlers of six lames, a pair of associated gauntlets each embossed with a fleur-de-lys on the cuff (restorations), breastplate of strong peascod form, struck with Nuremberg mark and a pair of serial marks at the neck, original fauld of two lames, a pair of tassets of seven lames, well matched backplate struck with Nuremberg mark and the maker's mark MR, associated culet, and a pair of matched fingered gauntlets each embossed with a fleur-de-lys on the cuff (restorations) The ownership mark on the burgonet relates to Saxony. Other pieces struck with the same mark are preserved in the Schwarzburg Armoury. The maker's mark, MR, on the back-plate is found on a number of morions of the Saxon Electoral Guard and is that of Martin Rotschmied, Michel Roth, or Martin Rothschuch. See A.V.B. Norman, 1986, no.A118, pp.52-53. £10000-12000 | Nil |
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14000 |
| 289 | A COMPOSITE EUROPEAN CUIRASSIER'S ARMOUR, EARLY 17TH CENTURY comprising later collar formed of a single plate front and rear, heavy one-piece breastplate, possibly Flemish, of vestigial 'peascod' fashion decorated with three narrow bands of incised lines radiating from the waist, the latter lightly flanged and fitted with a heavy fauld of one lame fitted at either side with a modern brass bolt for a pair of long tassets, possibly Flemish, each of thirteen lames terminating in a winged poleyn of five lames, decorated on the front of its third with an embossed six-pointed star, early 16th century backplate formed of a main plate, a pair of side-plates and a culet plate fitted at the centre of its waist with a modern hook to receive a culet of five lames, the lower four are formed in two halves joined medially by rivets, a pair of pauldrons of five lames incorporating a large pointed lower plate, vambraces of three lames, upper and lower cannons, poleyns of five lames with central winged plate with a recessed border, a pair of fingered gauntlets (restorations and repairs): painted black throughout and with some recessed borders and incised linear ornament Stand not included £6000-8000 | Nil |
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| 290 | A RARE ITALIAN VISOR FOR A BASCINET OR BARBUTA, CIRCA 1350 of one-piece bulbous form for a T-shaped face opening, with near circular upper part pierced with a pair of flanged vision slots and narrowing to form a long slightly in-curved lower 'tongue' with straight sides towards the base, the lower edge rounded, pierced with a series of circular breathes on each side of a medial ridge, and fitted at the top with an iron strap pierced with two slots for attaching to a pair of hooks on a helmet (chemically cleaned) 26.8cm; 10I in high overall Provenance:Aroldi Collection, Milan R.T. Gwynn, sold Christie's 24th April 2001, lot 75, 11,162 (including premium). A visor of similar form is preserved in the Stibbert Museum, Florence. Another, formerly in the Bargello, Florence passed through the collections of Londesborough, Cripps-Day and Sir James Mann and is now in the Royal Armouries Leeds. £6000-8000 | Nil |
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| 291 | A RARE GERMAN BREASTPLATE FOR FIELD USE, CIRCA 1520 of strong globose form, the neck with a boldly roped edge, pierced on the right for a lance rest, fitted with a pair of strongly roped arm gussets (the left associated), associated waist flange, and decorated over its main surface with pairs of embossed ribs and with traces of etched ornament (perhaps later) 35.5cm; 14in high £2000-2500 | Nil |
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3200 |
| 292 | A GERMAN GORGET, 16TH CENTURY formed of four plates front and rear, hinged on the right and secured by a stud on the left, with neck of three lames, the top lames each with plain rounded turn, with a pair of large plates beneath, fitted with a pair of later buckles for straps at the rear, and the front plates pierced with holes for attaching a lining (light pitting) 11.5cm; 4I in in high £700-900 | Nil |
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1400 |
| 293 | A PAIR OF GERMAN GREAVES AND SABATONS, 16TH CENTURY AND LATER the greaves each fitted with a pair of shaped hinges on the outside and closed on the inside by a stud top and bottom, the sabatons each formed of nine lames, the last three each embossed with thirteen radiating ribs 43cm; 17in high (2) £600-800 | Nil |
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| 294 | A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, MID-16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NUREMBERG with one-piece skull embossed with four broad centrally divided ribs rising to a pronounced acorn finial, strongly flanged outwards at the base, fitted with pivoting peak, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces each pierced with a circular arrangement of holes, plume-holder and neck-defence, the main surfaces painted black and the edges with recessed borders and lightly roped turns (restorations and repairs) 22.5cm; 8k ?Pin high £2500-3000 | Nil |
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| 295 | A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1540 with one-piece skull formed with four triangular panels rising to a near pyramidal point, fitted with associated fixed peak and neck guard each with recessed border and finely roped edge, and a pair of later cheek-pieces A burgonet of similar form and struck with the mark of the Vienna City arsenal is preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, inv.no. HEN.M.80-1933. See I.Eaves 2002, p.190. £1500-2000 | Nil |
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1500 |
| 296 | ELEMENTS OF ARMOUR IN 15TH CENTURY GOTHIC STYLE comprising hinged visor from a sallet, a pair of tournament gauntlets, the left of heavy construction, extending almost to the elbow and formed with a pointed moulding over the terminal of the ulna, a pair of pauldrons, decorated with fluting and with strongly flanged upper borders, besagews, cuisses and poleyns, and a pair of articulated sabatons with pointed toes; and TWO MACES IN 16TH CENTURY STYLE, the first with head of seven shaped flanges each formed with a reinforced spike and spirally moulded haft (11) £400-500 | Nil |
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| 297 | A FINE ITALIAN CUIRASSIER'S CLOSE HELMET, CIRCA 1620-30 with rounded skull formed in two pieces joined by a roped low medial comb and fitted at the nape with a plume-holder, prominent peak, flat face-defence and bevor attached to the skull by common pivots with large rosette washers beneath, the peak shaped at the brow to fit the front of the comb of the skull, the face-defence cut at each side with four vertical ventilation slots and at its upper edge with a pair of shallow rectangular notches forming the lower edges of the vision slits separated by an upward projecting central division, the bevor pierced at each side by ventilation-holes in rosette formation continuing into the skull, the face-defence and the bevor each secured to the right side by means of a well-formed swivel hook, a single gorget-plate at the rear (the lower rear gorget-plate and front gorget-plates missing), decorated at its main edges with roped inward turns and with bands and borders of triple and quadruple incised lines (pitted overall, minor chips at the edge of the peak, the rear gorget-plate) Related helmets are preserved in the armoury of the Knights of St. John, Malta, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. See C. Spiteri 2003, p.283 & pp.300-1; W.Karcheski Jr 1995, p.35, and S.Pyhrr et. al. 2002, p.20). £3000-4000 | Nil |
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| 298 | AN EAST EUROPEAN ZISCHAGGE, MID-17TH CENTURY with one-piece skull rising to a ring finial on a large circular plain washer, incised with a roped pattern around the base and over the middle of the skull, fitted with plain peak (nasal bar missing), neck-guard of four articulated lames, the lowest drawn-out to a point, a pair of pendant ear-defences each pierced with a circular arrangement of holes, and with an early blackened finish throughout 25.5cm; 10in high £1500-2000 | Nil |
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| 299 | A FINE FLEMISH CUIRASSIER'S HELMET, CIRCA 1620-30 with egg-shaped skull formed in two pieces joined medially by rivets, fitted at the nape with a plume-holder and embossed with a pattern of V-shaped flutes radiating from a small acorn finial riveted through a large pierced rosette washer, and the flutes divided by roped ribs, the peak, face-defence and bevor attached to the skull by common pivots, the peak decorated at its brow with flutes and roped ribs serving as a continuation of the skull, the flat face-defence cut at each side with elaborately fretted ventilation-holes and at its upper edge with a broad rectangular notch forming the lower edge of the vision-slit (the central division chipped), well-formed bevor retained by a strap and buckle passing around the front of the neck from each side of the skull, gorget of three plates front and rear, the lowest in each case descending to an obtuse central point, the helmet decorated at its main edges with roped inward turns, at its subsidiary edges with pairs of incised lines repeated to either sides of the crests of the flutes on the skull and peak (pitted overall, minor damage and repairs) This belongs to a distinctive group of high quality Flemish armours now mainly preserved in the Real Armeria, Madrid (A380-401 & 414-21). A number of them may be identified as the work of the 'Master MP', purchased for Phillip IV of Spain in Brussels in 1624 and 1625. See Karcheski Jr 1985, p. 307-14). Other examples from this group are preserved in the Musee de l'Armee, Paris (H.150), the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (Z.O. 3288), the Livrustkammaren, Stockholm (2635), the Art Institute, Chicago (2661), and the Smith Art Museum, Springfield ( 17.23.9)). See also the helmet on the three quarter armour sold in these rooms, 14th of December 2005, lot 114. £7000-9000 | Nil |
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| 301 | A GERMAN BLACK-AND-WHITE comb MORION, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY formed in two pieces joined by a tall roped comb formed with a recessed border, the skull embossed on each side with an expanded flowerhead within a circular arrangement of c-scrolls on a black painted ground, outwardly flanged brim rising to strong up-turned points front and rear, fitted with a plume-holder at the rear (one rivet missing), the base encircled with brass rosette rivets (three missing), and the edges finished with plain turns 29.2cm; 11I in high £1000-1500 | Nil |
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