AN EARLY STYLE HOSHI KABUTO Of thirty two plates and large rivets and five stage gilt and shakudo tehan and dai-shinodare, mounted front and rear above shakudo kanemono, the mabezashi with ornate kuwagata and maedate dai, the maedate in the form of a gold lacquered shishi, the five stage kasajikoro blue and white laced with enormous fukugaeshi bearing large gilt mon of open and closed kiku, signed Masuda Myochin Osumi no kami Ki no Munemasa, Edo period, mid 18th century