A GERMAN LEATHER FUNERARY HELM in 15th Century style, made of a single piece of leather stitched up the front, comprising rounded skull curving in at the neck and widening into a gorget with piped edges, face opening with defence made of twisted leather strips imitating branches (damaged), decorated overall with cutwork foliage involving fruit and, at the neck, a shield (some splitting overall); a German triangular musketeer's powder-flask in 16th Century style, with wooden leather-covered body mounted in blackened iron, iron nozzle and belt hook, and red plaited suspension cord with tassels; two pairs of South American spurs, 19th Century; another South American spur; and a pair of iron stirrups, each of wide triangular form (repaired and rust patinated throughout), probably Spanish, 16th/17th Century | Christie's

Lot 162

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A GERMAN LEATHER FUNERARY HELM in 15th Century style, made of a single piece of leather stitched up the front, comprising rounded skull curving in at the neck and widening into a gorget with piped edges, face opening with defence made of twisted leather strips imitating branches (damaged), decorated overall with cutwork foliage involving fruit and, at the neck, a shield (some splitting overall); a German triangular musketeer's powder-flask in 16th Century style, with wooden leather-covered body mounted in blackened iron, iron nozzle and belt hook, and red plaited suspension cord with tassels; two pairs of South American spurs, 19th Century; another South American spur; and a pair of iron stirrups, each of wide triangular form (repaired and rust patinated throughout), probably Spanish, 16th/17th Century

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A GERMAN LEATHER FUNERARY HELM in 15th Century style, made of a single piece of leather stitched up the front, comprising rounded skull curving in at the neck and widening into a gorget with piped edges, face opening with defence made of twisted leather strips imitating branches (damaged), decorated overall with cutwork foliage involving fruit and, at the neck, a shield (some splitting overall); a German triangular musketeer's powder-flask in 16th Century style, with wooden leather-covered body mounted in blackened iron, iron nozzle and belt hook, and red plaited suspension cord with tassels; two pairs of South American spurs, 19th Century; another South American spur; and a pair of iron stirrups, each of wide triangular form (repaired and rust patinated throughout), probably Spanish, 16th/17th Century
The first 13¾in. high (9)

Lot Essay

The helm copied from a helmet in the Hohenzollern Collection at Sigmaringen, illustrated in J.H. von Hefner-Alteneck, Waffen, 1903, pl. 48

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