An English Civil War Troopers Three-Barred Lobster Tailed Pot. With hand forged two-piece skull and low turned comb, three-bar face guard joined at the bottom to form a blunt point, bluntly pointed neck-guard of three simulated lames with a turned border (some damage on the left side, see pictures) with triangular cheek pieces.

External Marks: There is a ‘H’ and ‘I’ stamped on the peak. Referred to as I over H in Thom Richardsons book. 

John Hill son of Hugh, citizen and armourer of London, was apprenticed to Richard Medley for 9 years from 1622, and made free on 3 June 1631 (Guildhall 12079/2). He is cited as an armourer in the Account of Sir Thomas Jay, Kt, Master of the King’s Armoury 1 October 1628 to 31 December 1631. At the Court in December 1637 he presented his mark IH which was deemed ‘noe mark, not allowed’ (Guildhall 12071/3: 102). It seems likely that he was dead by 1647, because there is the later John Hill son of John Hill of Bentley, Yorkshire, who was apprentice to Nicholas Marshall from 1639-47, and who gave a silver spoon marked IH at his freedom (Guildhall 12079/2: 96v) so the IH marked had passed on by 1647. 

Tom Richardson (2004) The London Armourers of the 17th Century, Henry Ling Limited, Dorset Press, UK. 

Internal Marks: None