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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1650; Classification(s): armour, pot helmet, hammered, formed of a rounded, medially-ridged skull with a broad, slightly downturned integral peak and a slightly downturned flange at the nape, a broad neck-defence of two upward-overlapping lames, and a sliding nasal-bar with retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw; hammered, shaped, riveted, wih a 'black from the hammer' finish, partly refreshed by black paint; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.100-1933]
Description: Pot helmet, for use by an harquebusier. Formed of a rounded, medially-ridged skull with a broad, slightly downturned integral peak and a slightly downturned flange at the nape, a broad neck-defence of two upward-overlapping lames, and a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw. The skull is formed in two halves joined medially by a riveted overlap to the right. The front edge of the peak and the rear edge of the nearly horizontal neck-defence are obtusely-pointed. The peak is pierced with a large suspension-hole to the left of its centre. The main edges of the helmet have plain inward turns. The sliding nasal-bar is a modern restoration. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | armour Unknown pot helmet | Temporal: | name=mid-17th Century; start=1650; end=1650 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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