LATE 15TH CENTURY
Details
An Important German Sallet With Associated Bevor
Late 15th Century
Finely forged from a single piece, with rounded skull (three internal patches) with low keel-shaped comb pierced for a crest-holder, short tail and single vision slit, narrow outward turn along the lower edge, and encircling row of domed iron lining-rivets, struck with an armourer's mark, a crossbow bolt, near the front edge; the falling-bevor of three-plates, the bottom one triangular and extending near the chest, the top one with a narrow turn bordered by a row of lining-holes
Sallet 10¼in. (25.8cm.) high
Bevor 11in. (28cm.) high
This is a fine example of a type of sallet of which only six have appeared on the open market since the Second World War (2)
Late 15th Century
Finely forged from a single piece, with rounded skull (three internal patches) with low keel-shaped comb pierced for a crest-holder, short tail and single vision slit, narrow outward turn along the lower edge, and encircling row of domed iron lining-rivets, struck with an armourer's mark, a crossbow bolt, near the front edge; the falling-bevor of three-plates, the bottom one triangular and extending near the chest, the top one with a narrow turn bordered by a row of lining-holes
Sallet 10¼in. (25.8cm.) high
Bevor 11in. (28cm.) high
This is a fine example of a type of sallet of which only six have appeared on the open market since the Second World War (2)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., 13 June 1947, Lot 82
Adrian Conan Doyle, Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 14-17 December 1974, Lot 423
Adrian Conan Doyle, Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 14-17 December 1974, Lot 423
Further details
See front and back cover illustrations