A Rare German Close-Helmet, Attributed To The Seusenhofer Workshop, Innsbruck Circa 1510 The rounded one-piece skull curving in and then out at the neck, fluted at the rear, encircled by a row of domed lining-rivets and pierced with eight pairs of holes for points securing the top of the lining (missing), fluted tail of three articulated plates, the upper two narrow and the other broad, of oblong shape, with a recessed border with a central pair of point-holes, pivoted bevor of one piece, shaped to the chin, and secured to the skull by a pivot-hook on the right, the bottom edge with a half-turn continuing that on the tail, and struck with a mark comprising two letters, and 'sparrow's beak' visor pivoted at the same points as the bevor, with stepped vision-slit with a central division, above a series of ventilation slits and holes continued down the right side, and with lifting peg on the right, the flutes and edges of the bevor and visor decorated with etched bands of running conventional foliage against a hatched ground and retaining traces of gilding (etching and gilding rubbed) 11in. (27.9cm.) high
A Rare German Close-Helmet, Attributed To The Seusenhofer Workshop, Innsbruck Circa 1510 The rounded one-piece skull curving in and then out at the neck, fluted at the rear, encircled by a row of domed lining-rivets and pierced with eight pairs of holes for points securing the top of the lining (missing), fluted tail of three articulated plates, the upper two narrow and the other broad, of oblong shape, with a recessed border with a central pair of point-holes, pivoted bevor of one piece, shaped to the chin, and secured to the skull by a pivot-hook on the right, the bottom edge with a half-turn continuing that on the tail, and struck with a mark comprising two letters, and 'sparrow's beak' visor pivoted at the same points as the bevor, with stepped vision-slit with a central division, above a series of ventilation slits and holes continued down the right side, and with lifting peg on the right, the flutes and edges of the bevor and visor decorated with etched bands of running conventional foliage against a hatched ground and retaining traces of gilding (etching and gilding rubbed) 11in. (27.9cm.) high
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