A GERMAN CLOSE HELMET WITH PEAK AND FALLING BUFFE, MID-16TH CENTURY AND 19TH CENTURY with skull (originally forming part of a burgonet and patched at its right side), boxed in four panels and rising to a point surmounted by a small acorn finial, its right side struck with the spurious quality-control-mark of the city of Nuremberg, peak and buffe attached to the skull by common pivots, the buffe formed of a main plate shaped to the chin and fitted at its upper edge with two falling plates each supported at the right side by a sprung stud, the upper one pierced with a pair of horizontal ventilation-slots and the lower with eight crescentic ventilation-holes above four of a star-shaped form, and two gorget-plates front and rear, the main edges of the helmet formed with roped turns (all parts except the skull restored) 35 cm; 13 3/4 in high Provenance Henry Furmage, London, 21 April 1931 £80 JWHA Inv. No. 1460 Exhibited 'Renaissance Hardwear: The Art and Technology of Armor', National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, 4 September 1987 - 3 January 1988 'Road Warriors: Knight Riders', Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 24 June - 4 September 2000