CIRCA 1530
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A German (Nuremberg) Close-Helmet of 'Maximilian' Type
Circa 1530
Of bright steel, the rounded one-piece skull with low roped comb, pierced with pairs of holes for lining points, encircled by a row of iron lining-rivets, and with tubular iron plume-holder at the rear, and press-button locking catch for the bevor on the right, later neck-guard of three plates, bellows visor, and bevor pivoted at the same points, the former with a lifting-peg on the right, and pierced with a single divided stepped vision-slit and a series of horizontal ventilation-slits between pairs of lightly-engraved lines, the bevor shaped to the chin and neck and struck near the front edge with the Nuremberg mark, and on the inside with a further mark (incomplete) in a pearled border, the lower edge recessed, turned and roped
11¾in. (29.8cm.) high
The mark inside the bevor is either an Augsburg mark (see Wallace Collection A 47-49), or a further Nuremberg mark (see A.V.B. Norman, Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour Supplement, p. 59, A 158)
Circa 1530
Of bright steel, the rounded one-piece skull with low roped comb, pierced with pairs of holes for lining points, encircled by a row of iron lining-rivets, and with tubular iron plume-holder at the rear, and press-button locking catch for the bevor on the right, later neck-guard of three plates, bellows visor, and bevor pivoted at the same points, the former with a lifting-peg on the right, and pierced with a single divided stepped vision-slit and a series of horizontal ventilation-slits between pairs of lightly-engraved lines, the bevor shaped to the chin and neck and struck near the front edge with the Nuremberg mark, and on the inside with a further mark (incomplete) in a pearled border, the lower edge recessed, turned and roped
11¾in. (29.8cm.) high
The mark inside the bevor is either an Augsburg mark (see Wallace Collection A 47-49), or a further Nuremberg mark (see A.V.B. Norman, Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour Supplement, p. 59, A 158)