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A FINE SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1580 with one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb
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A FINE SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1580 with one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb, projecting forward and slightly upward to an acutely-pointed integral peak (small perforation at left of brow), fitted at its outward flanged lower edge with a matching neck-guard of one lame (point pierced with two later wiring-holes), and each of its sides with a hinged cheek-piece formed of three diagonally-articulated plates (the front two restored) riveted to an underlying leather, the crown fitted with an old, possibly original lining of twill-woven fabric stuffed with tow, the main edges of the burgonet decorated with file-roped inward turns
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A FINE SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1580 with one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb, projecting forward and slightly upward to an acutely-pointed integral peak (small perforation at left of brow), fitted at its outward flanged lower edge with a matching neck-guard of one lame (point pierced with two later wiring-holes), and each of its sides with a hinged cheek-piece formed of three diagonally-articulated plates (the front two restored) riveted to an underlying leather, the crown fitted with an old, possibly original lining of twill-woven fabric stuffed with tow, the main edges of the burgonet decorated with file-roped inward turns
Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria
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Olympia
Sotheby's Olympia
Hammersmith Road
W14 8YX
United Kingdom
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