AN IRON PUNISHMENT MASK comprising a half-barrel shaped mask of vertical bars terminating at the bottom in outturned spikes below a neck-ring incorporating a hinged section originally secured on the left by a padlock (missing), hinged central bar at the rear with ring for a shackle, the whole surmounted by claw-like spikes, 18th or early 19th Century; and a pair of long-handled iron pinchers
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AN IRON PUNISHMENT MASK comprising a half-barrel shaped mask of vertical bars terminating at the bottom in outturned spikes below a neck-ring incorporating a hinged section originally secured on the left by a padlock (missing), hinged central bar at the rear with ring for a shackle, the whole surmounted by claw-like spikes, 18th or early 19th Century; and a pair of long-handled iron pinchers
19in. high and 30½in. (2)
Lot Essay
For an almost identical mask see R. Held, Inquisition... Torture Instruments... in The Criminology Museum, Milan, 1991, p. 152