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, with triangular cheek pieces. 

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TC Thomas Carpenter was Master of the Armourers’ Company in 1664 (Pitt 1930: 42), and was still active on 10 June 1678, making 20 harquebuses armours (RA I.1) 

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Thom Richardson (2004) The London Armourers Of The 17th Century, Henry Ling Ltd, Dorset Press, UK.