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AN ITALIAN CLOSE-HELMET
CIRCA 1570-80, PROBABLY MILANESE
The one-piece skull with high roped comb, bluntly-pointed visor with single vision-slit with central division (lifting peg missing), upper-bevor pierced with a circle of ventilation holes on the right, both pivoted at the same points as the lower bevor, the latter with a pivot-hook engaging with a pierced stud on the visor, and single gorget-plate at the front (front gorget-plate repaired, rear gorget-plate missing, slight damage and rust patination overall)
11½in. (29.1cm.)
CIRCA 1570-80, PROBABLY MILANESE
The one-piece skull with high roped comb, bluntly-pointed visor with single vision-slit with central division (lifting peg missing), upper-bevor pierced with a circle of ventilation holes on the right, both pivoted at the same points as the lower bevor, the latter with a pivot-hook engaging with a pierced stud on the visor, and single gorget-plate at the front (front gorget-plate repaired, rear gorget-plate missing, slight damage and rust patination overall)
11½in. (29.1cm.)