A RARE GERMAN SALLET

CIRCA 1470

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A RARE GERMAN SALLET
CIRCA 1470
Forged from a single piece, with rounded skull with flat keel-shaped comb pierced for a crest-holder and incised with double lines each side of the piercing, long pointed tail and single vision-slit, narrow angular outward turn along the lower edge, and encircling row of domed iron lining-rivets (shallow surface corrosion throughtout, minor holing to left side of skull, lining rivets and lower portion of the helmet below the row of lining rivets expertly replaced)
8½in. (21.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

The vendor informs us that this rare sallet is believed to have been in the collection of H.R.H. The Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg and that it formed part of the Exhibition of Arms, Armour and Militaria from his collection installed at the Armouries of The Tower of London between April 10th and October 31st 1952 (item no. 37). The exhibition catalogue notes item no. 37 as having originated from Gmunden in Upper Austria.

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