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PARTLY CIRCA 1600
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A GERMAN COMPOSITE CLOSED BURGONET
Partly circa 1600
With one-piece skull rising to a cabled comb, pointed fall fitted with an additional lower portion covering the sides of the face and locked by a spring-catch at the chin, the two parts also joined by an inner face-guard of scrolling rectangular bars, and the lower-plate also fitted with an additional falling-buffe of one deep plate pivoted over the jowl and closed by a hook-and-eye on the left, chin-piece moving on a common pivot with the fall, neck-guard of two lames front and rear, incised with triple linear bands throughout, studded with brass lining rivets, turned roped edges, and finished rough from the hammer (the skull with small hole and lamination cracks, the inner face-guard possibly later, the neck lames possibly associated).
12½in (31.7cm)
Partly circa 1600
With one-piece skull rising to a cabled comb, pointed fall fitted with an additional lower portion covering the sides of the face and locked by a spring-catch at the chin, the two parts also joined by an inner face-guard of scrolling rectangular bars, and the lower-plate also fitted with an additional falling-buffe of one deep plate pivoted over the jowl and closed by a hook-and-eye on the left, chin-piece moving on a common pivot with the fall, neck-guard of two lames front and rear, incised with triple linear bands throughout, studded with brass lining rivets, turned roped edges, and finished rough from the hammer (the skull with small hole and lamination cracks, the inner face-guard possibly later, the neck lames possibly associated).
12½
Provenance
Duke Bernhard von Sachsen-Meiningen, removed from Schloss Landsberg, Werra, E. Kahlert, Berlin, 1926
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium