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**A NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET OF SO-CALLED 'SAVOYARD' TYPE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
with rounded one-piece skull rising to a file-roped medial ridge enclosed to either side by an incised line, each side of the face-opening formed over the ear with a low semi-circular boss pierced with five circular auditory holes, peak and bevor attached to the skull by common pivots fitted beneath their round heads with large rosette-washers, the rounded peak fitted within its brow with a later U-shaped face-defence pierced with almond-shaped eye-openings, and embossed in low relief with a nose and moustachioed upper lip, the bevor secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a swivel-hook and stud, and a single short rounded gorget-plate front and rear, the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns accompanied in the case of the gorget-plates by single incised lines, repeated at the subsidiary edges
31 cm; 12 in high
Provenance
Hurcomb Sale, London, 28 October 1928
Cyril Andrade Ltd, London, 16 May 1930, no. 431
JWHA Inv. No. 1142
£2000-3000
with rounded one-piece skull rising to a file-roped medial ridge enclosed to either side by an incised line, each side of the face-opening formed over the ear with a low semi-circular boss pierced with five circular auditory holes, peak and bevor attached to the skull by common pivots fitted beneath their round heads with large rosette-washers, the rounded peak fitted within its brow with a later U-shaped face-defence pierced with almond-shaped eye-openings, and embossed in low relief with a nose and moustachioed upper lip, the bevor secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a swivel-hook and stud, and a single short rounded gorget-plate front and rear, the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns accompanied in the case of the gorget-plates by single incised lines, repeated at the subsidiary edges
31 cm; 12 in high
Provenance
Hurcomb Sale, London, 28 October 1928
Cyril Andrade Ltd, London, 16 May 1930, no. 431
JWHA Inv. No. 1142
£2000-3000
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**A NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET OF SO-CALLED 'SAVOYARD'
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000
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