8th Dec, 2010 10:00

Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria

 
Lot 131
 

131

AN ENGLISH HARQUEBUSIER'S POT HELMET

AN ENGLISH HARQUEBUSIER'S POT HELMET, MID-17TH CENTURY with two-piece skull joined along a low turned comb (one internally patched repair), fitted at its nape with a pointed neck-guard of four simulated lames and at its brow with a pivoted peak supporting a three-bar face-defence, and with a pair of pendent ear-defences, each pierced with a circular arrangement of holes 33.5cm; 13 1/4in high

No Reserve

Sold for £900


 
AN ENGLISH HARQUEBUSIER'S POT HELMET, MID-17TH CENTURY with two-piece skull joined along a low turned comb (one internally patched repair), fitted at its nape with a pointed neck-guard of four simulated lames and at its brow with a pivoted peak supporting a three-bar face-defence, and with a pair of pendent ear-defences, each pierced with a circular arrangement of holes 33.5cm; 13 1/4in high