Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

VARIOUS OWNERS
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AN ITALIAN MORION IN THE ‘SPANISH’ FASHION, CIRCA
1600
formed in one piece with an almond-shaped crown rising
to short backward-directed ‘stalk’, and an integral downturned
brim of uniform width (the rear pierced with a later
wiring-hole), decorated around its edge with a plain inward
turn (small crack at the rear) accompanied by a recessed
border, and painted within its right side with the white
inventory number 82, the base of the crown encircled by
fourteen later round-headed lining-rivets with brass rosettewashers
(lightly patinated overall)
18.4cm; 7D in high
£400-600
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A ZISCHÄGGE, MID-17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GERMAN
formed of a one-piece hemispherical skull embossed with
six radiating ribs, fitted at its apex with a transverselypierced
finial and circular washer, at its brow with a flat
peak, at its nape with a flaring neck-guard of four lames,
and at each side with a pendent cheek-piece pointed at its
lower end and pierced at its upper end with seven circular
ventilation-holes, the peak stamped at its point with an
indistinct mark (N?) and pierced at its rear with a
rectangular hole to accommodate a sliding nasal-bar
secured at the brow by a rectangular staple and lockingscrew
stamped M on its leaf-shaped upper end, the main
edges of the helmet decorated with plain inward turns or
ribs, its surface blackened overall
28cm; 11in high
£1500-2000