An English Harquebusiers Armour, Circa 1620.
With hemispherical skull formed in two pieces joined medially along the crest of a low comb, fitted at the brow with a broad, flat obtusely-pointed peak bearing traces of a makers mark and supporting on its underside a triple-barred face-guard, at the nape with an obtusely-pointed one-piece neck-guard embossed to simulate four lames and punched ’21’, and at each side with a later pendent scutiform cheek-piece, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns (pitted throughout, small chips at the front behind the peak)
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