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180 A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1580-90 with rounded one-piece skull rising gently to a high file-roped medial comb and projecting forward to a narrow acutelypointed peak, fitted at its lower edge with a matching neck-guard of one lame, and at each side with a hinged cheekpiece, flanged outwards at it lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre with five small auditory holes in dice formation, the whole formed at its main edges with finely file-roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and fitted throughout with brass-capped constructional rivets and lining-rivets of iron retaining beneath their heads in the case of those encircling the neck and the brow, large rosette washers of brass (the right cheek-piece associated and its hinge broken; the left cheek-piece later and its hinge repaired) 23.0cm; 9in
181 A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1560 with pointed one-piece skull boxed in four panels, rising to a prominent baluster-shaped finial, the upper half of which is faceted and the lower writhen, projecting forward to a flat acutely-pointed upturned peak and backwards to a similar but shorter and more obtusely-pointed downturned neck-guard pierced at its centre rear with a pair of suspension-holes, and fitted at each side with a later hinged cheek-piece flanged at its forward and lower edges to serve respectively as continuations of the peak and neck-guard, and pierced at its centre, within a raised circle, with four small auditory-holes separated by a four-pointed star, the skull retaining an old quilted lining, the main edges of the helmet formed with fileroped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and its surfaces retaining a blued overall finish (now lightly pitted, the skull with a plugged hole at the upper end of one of its facets and a patch at the front of the cut-out for the right cheek-piece) 23.0cm; 9in
‡ £1800-2400
‡ £1500-2000
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