A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1570-80 formed of a one-piece skull rising to a high r

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1570-80 formed of a one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb, projecting forward to an acutely-pointed peak struck at its front edge with a maker's mark consisting of an escutcheon enclosing a pair of indistinct initials (FC?) over a star and the quality-control mark of the city of Nuremberg, fitted at the nape with a slender plume-holder and obtusely-pointed one-piece neck-guard and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece shaped at its upper front corner to fit over the side of the peak, flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre, within a central boss, with ten small circular ventilation-holes arranged in rosette formation, the main edges of the burgonet decorated, except at the front of the cheek-pieces, with roped inward turns, its surfaces decorated overall, on a formerly black-from-the-hammer ground (now bright), with variously raised and recessed bands and borders in the "black and white fashion" (showing overall wear and minor cracks and bruises) 32.4cm; 123/4 in high Many similar Nuremberg burgonets are preserved in the Steiermärkisches Landeszeughaus in Graz (Peter Krenn 1987, pp.28-9).