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150 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; 13¾ 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 ‡ £700-1000
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151 A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET IN THE ‘BLACK AND WHITE’ FASHION, CIRCA 1570-80 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb, fitted at the nape with a large tapering plume-tube and at its flanged lower edge with a neck-guard of one lame (restored), projecting forward to an obtusely-pointed peak pierced at the centre of the brow with a rectangular hole to accommodate a sliding nasal-bar retained by a staple and wing-headed screw (both the nasal-bar and its fittings restored), and fitted at the sides with hinged cheek-piece (restored) the forward ends of which overlap and are fastened to one another by a swivel-hook and pierced stud, and bear a sturdy rectangular staple to receive the lower end of the nasalbar, the centre of each cheek-piece pierced with nine holes in rosette formation and flanged outwards at their lower edges to receive a separate front neck-guard each of one lame, the whole decorated with bands and borders burnished bright against a blackened ground (lightly pitted overall) 41 cm; 16⅛ in high Provenance JWHA Inv. No. 2611 ‡ £1200-1800
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