Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar

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A FINE SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1550-60,
PERHAPS INNSBRUCK
with one-piece skull rising to a tall roped comb decorated
to either side of its base with roped ribs and accompanied
by a slender recessed border, fitted at the nape with a later
plume-holder, and a neck-guard of one lame, and at the
front with a pointed integral peak, each decorated with a
central ogee, the latter with a hook for securing a falling
buffe, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces each embossed at its
centre with an eight-pointed star and pierced with groups
of holes in alternating groups of two and three, retained at
the front by a leather strap with a filed iron buckle, the skull
with a later padded lining, decorated at its main edges with
finely-roped inward turns and accompanying recessed
borders occupied in all cases by roped ribs and interrupted
at the centre of the peak and the neck-guard with an ogee
moulding
27.2cm; 10Nin high
£6000-8000
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