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PROPERTY REMOVED FROM A STYRIAN CASTLE<br />
297<br />
A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600<br />
formed of a rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial<br />
comb, projecting forward to an obtusely-pointed peak<br />
struck at its point with the quality-control mark of the city of<br />
Augsburg and an indistinct maker’s mark incorporating the<br />
letter ‘M’, flanged outwards at the nape to receive an<br />
obtusely-pointed one-piece neck-guard and fitted at each<br />
side with a hinged cheek-piece pierced at its centre with<br />
five circular ventilation-holes and flanged outwards at its<br />
lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard,<br />
the main edges of the helmet turned inwards, its surface<br />
retaining much of a black from the hammer finish (the skull<br />
showing surface delamination of its metal, the right centre<br />
of the peak cracked, the hinge for the left cheek-piece<br />
replaced)<br />
28.5cm; 11D in high<br />
£1200-1400<br />
298<br />
A GERMAN COMB-MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY<br />
formed in two halves with a rounded skull rising to a high<br />
medial comb fitted at its nape with a plume-holder<br />
(probably later), and an integral brim turned down at each<br />
side, rising to an acute point at the front and rear (that at<br />
the front slightly bruised), and decorated around its edge<br />
with a plain inward turn, the crown encircled at its base by<br />
twelve round-headed lining-rivets with rosette-washers of<br />
brass (five missing), retaining fragments of a buff-leather<br />
lining-band, and embossed at each side with two<br />
concentric circles, the inner one enclosing a hexafoil, the<br />
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outer one formed at its inner edge as a running wavepattern,<br />
originally coloured black and white but later<br />
blackened overall (the surface showing some oxidation and<br />
wear)<br />
29.8cm; 11N in high<br />
£1000-1400<br />
299<br />
A GERMAN COMB-MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY<br />
formed in two halves with a rounded skull rising to a high<br />
medial comb fitted at its nape with a later plume-holder,<br />
and an integral brim turned down at each side, rising to an<br />
acute point at the front and rear, and decorated around its<br />
edge with a plain inward turn (small split and minor<br />
bruising), the crown encircled at its base by twelve roundheaded<br />
lining-rivets with rosette-washers of brass (two<br />
missing), retaining a buff-leather lining-band, and<br />
embossed at each side with two concentric circles, the<br />
inner one enclosing a hexafoil, the outer one formed at its<br />
inner edge as a running wave-pattern, originally coloured<br />
black and white but later blackened overall (the surface<br />
showing some oxidation and wear)<br />
29.8cm; 11N in high<br />
£1000-1400
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