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158 A SOUTH GERMAN MORION IN THE SPANISH FASHION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with an almond-shaped crown and a flat integral brim projecting to an obtuse point front and rear, the whole formed in two pieces joined medially by rivets and fitted at each side with a slender tapering one-piece cheek-piece (the left completely and the right partly detached) pierced in each case with three small auditory-holes, the base of the crown encircled by ten round-headed lining-rivets, the edge of the brim formed with a narrow inward turn, and the whole retaining its black-from-the-hammer finish 20 cm; 8 in high Provenance His Imperial Highness, Archduke Eugen, Veste Hohenwerfen, Austria, sold, Anderson Galleries, New York, 5 March 1927, lot 417 JWHA Inv. No. 187 ‡ £400-600
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159 A RARE SOUTH GERMAN SKULL OF A ZISCHÄGGE, SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY of ogival form terminating at its apex in an acorn finial and fitted just beneath it with a later conical brass cap, decorated between the lower edge of the cap and a narrow recessed border at the lower edge of the skull with close-set vertical flutes, pierced at its lower edge with various holes for the attachment of a peak, neck-guard and cheek-pieces, and later fitted over the brow with two conical bosses and rosettewashers of brass, and, to the right of them, with a bell-shaped plaque also of brass (the whole heavily patinated and showing a few rust perforations) 23 cm; 9 in high Provenance Henry Furmage, London, 15 April 1931 Helmets such as this were made in imitation of the Turkish shishak. Other examples of the type are discussed by Mann 1962, Vol. I, pp. 109-10, pl. 59; Norman 1986, p.48; and Gamber and Beaufort 1990, pp. 165-4, pl. 77. Five examples, dating from about 1563, are illustrated in the pattern-book of the Augsburg etcher Jörg Sorg the Younger (Becher et. al., 1980, p. 91) JWHA Inv. No. 1470 ‡ £400-700
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