AN ENGLISH LOBSTER-TAILED POT, the hemispherical two-piece skull with five parallel lines running centrally from front to rear (plume-holder missing), pivoted pointed fall with three-bar face-defence terminating at the bottom in a turned finial, bluntly-pointed neck-guard of five upward-lapping lames, triangular cheek-pieces (not a pair), the edges bordered by pairs of engraved lines, the main edges turned, brass-capped rivets throughout, and the surface blackened throughout, circa 1660-80