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277 A SOUTH GERMAN COLLAR, AUGSBURG, EARLY 17TH CENTURY formed of a single plate front and rear, originally fitted at its outer ends with articulated spaudlers (now replaced in each case by a single restored fixed lame), the edge of its upward-flanged neck-opening formed with a plain inward-turn, and the obtusely-pointed lower edge of its front plate struck with the fir-cone mark of the city of Augsburg and the serial-number 40 (the lower edges of the front and rear plates each repaired with a small internal patch, and all parts lightly patinated overall) Provenance JWHA Inv. No. 404. ‡ £400-700 278 A SOUTH GERMAN COLLAR, CIRCA 1590 formed of three lames front and rear, the lowest in each case deeper than the rest and originally fitted with a pair of integral spaudlers (replaced at each side by a hinged brass loop for the attachment of a separate pauldron), and the first formed at its upper edge with a finely file-roped inward turn (the lowest front lame exhibiting some losses at the left of its outer edge, and the corresponding rear plate slightly trimmed at its lower edge) Provenance JWHA Inv. No. 2602. ‡ £250-400 279 THE SKULL OF A NORTH EUROPEAN HARQUEBUSIER’S POT, POSSIBLY DUTCH, MID-17TH CENTURY; AND AN UNFINISHED VISOR, 19TH/20TH CENTURY IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY GERMAN STYLE the first of hemispherical form constructed in two halves joined along the crest of a low medial comb, projecting backwards as a short flange to receive a neck-guard, and forwards as a broad obtusely-pointed peak pieced at the centre of the brow with a rectangular hole to accommodate a nasal-bar, the edge of the peak formed with a plain inward turn and the comb enclosed to either side by a pair of incised lines (each side of the skull fitted just above the outer ends of its peak with a later horizontal strip of iron, and the whole heavily corroded and holed); the second of bellows form, probably intended for a close-helmet, only partly worked to its final form and devoid of piercings (oxidised overall) (2) Provenance Probably Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York. JWHA Inv. Nos. 3069, 247. ‡ £30-50
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