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Auction archive: Lot number 4020

An English pikeman's armor mid-17th century

Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$9,945
Auction archive: Lot number 4020

An English pikeman's armor mid-17th century

Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$9,945
Beschreibung:

Comprising: 1) Pot helmet, the two-piece skull with rolled comb and simple line borders, rear with plume socket; lower edge with row of iron lining rivets and flanged to form the wide, downsloping brim, the rim guttered, rolled and fitted with lining rivets; the front edge with armorer's or arsenal mark and pierced with large suspension hole. 2) Breastplate of heavy weight with flanged and rolled collar, rolled arm holes and with flanged lower edge fitted with pierced rectangular studs for the tasset buckles; struck below the collar EO 95 beside an armorer's mark. Backplate with rolled collar and rims. One-piece tassets worked as with six overlapping lames; guttered and rolled rims; set with brass-headed rivets; upper edges fitted with iron buckles fitted with hooks and rectangular slots. Mounted on simple wooden stand and with re-leathered shoulder straps. Condition: Scattered marks and light pitting. 1) Brim with 4 inch tear to edge of brim. See Illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 4020
Auction:
Datum:
18 Nov 2013
Auction house:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Comprising: 1) Pot helmet, the two-piece skull with rolled comb and simple line borders, rear with plume socket; lower edge with row of iron lining rivets and flanged to form the wide, downsloping brim, the rim guttered, rolled and fitted with lining rivets; the front edge with armorer's or arsenal mark and pierced with large suspension hole. 2) Breastplate of heavy weight with flanged and rolled collar, rolled arm holes and with flanged lower edge fitted with pierced rectangular studs for the tasset buckles; struck below the collar EO 95 beside an armorer's mark. Backplate with rolled collar and rims. One-piece tassets worked as with six overlapping lames; guttered and rolled rims; set with brass-headed rivets; upper edges fitted with iron buckles fitted with hooks and rectangular slots. Mounted on simple wooden stand and with re-leathered shoulder straps. Condition: Scattered marks and light pitting. 1) Brim with 4 inch tear to edge of brim. See Illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 4020
Auction:
Datum:
18 Nov 2013
Auction house:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
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