with finely formed skull boxed in eight sections and drawn out to an acute point at its apex, pierced with a circular arrangement of fourteen and thirteen circular ventilation-holes around a central hole on the left and right sides respectively, visor, upper bevor and bevor attached by common pivots (replaced), each secured at the right side by a spring-catch operated by a push button, the visor with stepped centrally-divided vision-slit, the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced with three pairs of cruciform ventilation-holes at each side, lower bevor shaped to the chin, two associated gorget-plates front and rear, and the skull pierced at its rear with pairs of holes for securing a lining, 28.3 cm high

Provenance

Harold Peterson, sold Christie’s 5th July 1978, lot 170 (£1200)