Lot 110
110
A GERMAN TRIPLE-COMBED BURGONET with rounded one-piece skull pierced with pairs of holes for a textile covering (missing) and with three low knurled combs, neck-guard, and bluntly pointed peak struck with the Nuremberg mark, on each side a keyhole slot for the attachment of a separate buffe (missing), deep hinged cheekpieces each pierced with a circular arrangement of heavy holes, the main edges turned and roped, and domed steel lining rivets throughout, mid-16th Century

Details
A GERMAN TRIPLE-COMBED BURGONET with rounded one-piece skull pierced with pairs of holes for a textile covering (missing) and with three low knurled combs, neck-guard, and bluntly pointed peak struck with the Nuremberg mark, on each side a keyhole slot for the attachment of a separate buffe (missing), deep hinged cheekpieces each pierced with a circular arrangement of heavy holes, the main edges turned and roped, and domed steel lining rivets throughout, mid-16th Century
10½in. high

Lot Essay

Thought to have been worn by the State Guard of the Emperor Charles V

For a similar example see Sotheby & Co., The Hever Castle Collection, 5 May, 1983, lot 37

More from Arms & Armour

View All
View All