CIRCA 1550, PROBABLY NORTH GERMAN (BRUNSWICK?)
Details
A Fall From A German Burgonet
Circa 1550, Probably North German (Brunswick?)
Of bright steel with bluntly pointed peak with recessed roped border and low brow-plate curving up to a central point and extending sideways into arms pierced for pivots, the brow-plate arms and border etched with running foliage involving monsters and two profile helmeted heads all against a blackened granular ground
3¼in. (8.3cm.)
Circa 1550, Probably North German (Brunswick?)
Of bright steel with bluntly pointed peak with recessed roped border and low brow-plate curving up to a central point and extending sideways into arms pierced for pivots, the brow-plate arms and border etched with running foliage involving monsters and two profile helmeted heads all against a blackened granular ground
3¼in. (8.3cm.)
Provenance
Sotheby & Co., 28 November 1950, Lot 119
Exhibited
Willmer House Museum, Farnham, 3-29 April 1962, No. 9