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MID-16TH CENTURY, FITTED WITH LATER 'WINGS'
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A GERMAN MILITARY BURGONET STRUCK WITH VIENNA ARSENAL MARK
Mid-16th Century, fitted with later 'wings'
Of shot-proof weight with one-piece skull drawn up to a strong cabled comb fitted with neck-guard of six downward overlapping narrow lames moving on sliding rivets, with an additional lame flanged outwards at right-angles to the plane of the neck, pivoted fall slotted for a sliding nasal bar retained by a bracket and screw, with turned cabled edges throughout, the skull, neck-flange and fall each struck with Vienna Arsenal mark, and now fitted with a pair of decorative pierced iron wings of Polish type retained by the fall pivots (the skull with three small dents and pierced with two pairs of holes, probably later).
15¼in (38.8cm)
Mid-16
Of shot-proof weight with one-piece skull drawn up to a strong cabled comb fitted with neck-guard of six downward overlapping narrow lames moving on sliding rivets, with an additional lame flanged outwards at right-angles to the plane of the neck, pivoted fall slotted for a sliding nasal bar retained by a bracket and screw, with turned cabled edges throughout, the skull, neck-flange and fall each struck with Vienna Arsenal mark, and now fitted with a pair of decorative pierced iron wings of Polish type retained by the fall pivots (the skull with three small dents and pierced with two pairs of holes, probably later).
15¼
Provenance
Hal Furmage, London, 1929
Christies, June, 1929
Christies, June, 1929
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium