A Fine Cuirassiers Helmet

A Fine Cuirassiers Helmet, Circa 1620.
£7,950.00

ID: 2392

A Fine Cuirassier Helmet, Circa 1620. With rounded two-piece skull joined down a high medialcomb and fitted at the nape with a tapering tubular plume-holder, decorated at its upper end with moulded lines, peak and bevor attached by common pivots with long domed heads and circular internal washers, flat obtusely-pointed peak fitted within its brow with a U-shaped face-defence cut with bars, each embossed with a medial rib, the bevor shaped to the chin and cut with a U-shaped face-opening, the skull and bevor each retaining remains of their lining-bands, the face-defence and bevor each secured at the right side by a swivel-hook and stud, and two gorget-plates front and rear, the lower front one descending to an obtuse central point, the main edges of the peak and lower gorget-plates each decorated with plain inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, those of the latter occupied by round-headed lining-rivets.


Notes:

Ex Wigington Collection. 

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