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A three piece brush set, comprising clothes brush, hair brush and hand mirror, the hand mirror with bevel edged shield shaped plate having engine turned backing with blank cartouche, 28cm long, Birmingham 1929/30, in fitted case (comb missing) (3)

A four piece brush set, comprising hair brush, clothes brush, comb and hand mirror, the circular bevel edged plate in moulded and beaded surround, 27cm long, in fitted case, Birmingham 1912

A Chinese white metal hair comb, of slightly curved form, moulded and pierced with stylised flowers and scrolling foliage, 8.5cm wide, 0.82ozs

AN UNUSUAL COMBINATION OVERNIGHT CASE, TRAVELLING TOILET CASE the upper section fitted with plastic brushes, comb, nail file and casket, each applied with guilloche enamel medallion of 18th century figures, each piece stamped 'Dupont-Pyralin - U.S.A', below is the overnight case, 45cm x 30.5cm x 16.5cm

A SIX PIECE SILVER DRESSING TABLE SET Birmingham 1929, comprising a hand mirror, four brushes and a comb

A Victorian walnut polyphon, the rectangular case with hinged lid carved with foliate scrolls and with geometric moulding, sold with twenty seven discs, width of case 57.5cm, diameter of discs approx 40cm. CONDITION REPORT: In working order, veneer from top panel missing, teeth and comb complete, winder present.

A small walnut cased late 19th century polyphon, the hinged lid revealing a 9cm comb with plaque inscribed "Douglas & Co, 7 South St, London", width of case 26cm, with approximately eighteen 21cm discs. CONDITION REPORT: In working order, approx 18 discs, one comb (one set of teeth), teeth good, slight cosmetic issues to the teeth, generally in good condition.

An early 20th century French tortoiseshell letter opener in the form of a sword, the 900 grade silver hilt set with clear stones, length 17.5cm, and a late 19th century tortoiseshell comb (2).

A matched George V hallmarked silver and blue guilloche enamel decorated four piece dressing table set comprising hand mirror, hand brush and a comb by WI Broadway & Co, Birmingham 1933, and a coat brush by William Neale & Son Ltd, Birmingham 1931, a further silver mounted coat brush, also a white metal mounted hand mirror and a matching coat brush embossed with foliate scrolls (7). CONDITION REPORT: Enamel decorated hand brush and coat brush both have minor losses to the enamel. Comb is heavily dented and severe losses. Further silver coat brush has noticeable dents throughout and losses to the brush.

A cased George V hallmarked silver backed five piece dressing table set, with overall engine turned decoration, each piece centred with a vacant cartouche, comprising hand mirror, two hand brushes and two coat brushes, A Buckley Ltd, Birmingham 1925, and assorted silver mounted comb, Birmingham 1929.

18th century comb back farmhouse elm seat chair of primitive construction, 38" high (at fault)

TWO PAIRS OF OPERA GLASS, SILVER AND ENAMELLED DRESSING BRUSH WITH COMB, CASED BINOCULARS AND THREE SMOKERS PIPES

A quantity of costume jewellery to include necklaces, bracelets, hat pins etc, a silver comb case, a silver handle manicure instrument and vintage handbags.

A small collection of crocodile leather items, comprising: a Dunhill travel clock by Jaeger Le Coultre, the eight day movement with Arabic numerals, a blotter by Asprey, an address book, a comb case with a horn comb, a writing pouch, a rectangular box, a small jewellery box and a vesta case, early to mid 20th century. (8) Provenance: Leslie Gooday OBE.

Welsh check Carthen, green ground blanket and honey comb multicoloured blanket. (3)

A Polyphon, movement No. 157339, single-piece comb, in walnut case, integral winder, complete with fourteen disc records

A 19th century Canton carved tortoiseshell hair comb, together with another, an embossed white metal and gilt Indian strong box, decorated with figures, 28cm, a similar dagger, and two pewter dishes

An Elizabeth II cased silver grooming set, comprising hand mirror and two brushes, together with an associated comb, the former uniformly decorated with raised foliate scrolls, songbirds and the mask of the Green Man, Birmingham, 1987

A mixed lot including candlestick, brushes, mirror, comb etc

LOT OF COLLECTABLES including a 20th Century music box, a silver mounted comb, Birmingham marks; together with a silver plated dish, a mother of pearl pill box etc Condition varies across the lot

A contemporary Nailsea glass bowl,ruby with opaque comb work pattern, 15.5cm diameter Provenance: ex Shrieber Collection

A Solid Silver Dressing Table Set, comprising hand mirror, clothes brush, hair brush and comb, Birmingham hallmark, mm Broadway & Co, 1982.

An Edwardian silver backed six piece dressing table set comprising a hand mirror, tortoiseshell effect comb, a pair of hair brushes and a pair of clothes brushes, Birmingham 1909, all engraved with urns and floral sprays, reserved with initials BC, in fitted case

**A GERMAN CLOSE HELMET OF SO-CALLED 'TODENKOPF' FASHION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a low medial comb, peak and bevor attached to it by common dome-headed pivots, the short obtusely-pointed peak formed at its centre with a V-shaped indentation and fitted within its brow with a later U-shaped face-defence pierced with semi-circular eye-openings flanged outwards at their straight lower edges and encircled by countersunk holes, a small sub-rectangular mouth-opening flanged outwards at its slightly curved upper edge, and small circular ventilation-holes arranged in rosette-formation over each cheek, the face-defence and bevor each secured at their right sides by flat-headed studs and swivel-hooks, and a single obtusely-pointed gorget-plate front and rear, its lower edge in each case formed with a plain inward turn accompanied by a recessed border, the centre of which is in each case indented, and the face-defence decorated with slender raised lines, the whole retaining a black-from-the hammer finish, later refreshed with black paint and decorated around its edges with gold paint

A FINELY ETCHED NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET FOR THE FOOT TOURNEY, MILANESE, CIRCA 1590 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial comb, and visor, prow-shaped upper bevor and bevor (the first two restored) attached to it by dome-headed common pivots (replaced), the visor formed with a stepped and centrally-divided vision-slit and fitted at its right side with a projecting lifting-peg, the bevor pierced at the right of the chin with a large hole to receive a locking-screw that projected from the original upper bevor, the skull and bevor fastened to one another at the right of the neck by a pierced hasp and turning-pin, and formed at their lower edges with internally hollowed rims intended to lock over and rotate on the upper edge of a collar, the armour finely etched overall with alternating bands of strapwork and trophies in each case set on a stippled ground respectively gilt and blackened (the gilding only preserved as traces), and separated by plain narrow triple bands 26.5 cm; 10¼ in Provenance Dr. Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, sold American Art Association, New York, 23rd November 1928 John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester Massachusetts Inv. No. 890, sold in these rooms 20th March 2013, lot 291 Exhibited 'Faerie Tale Festival of Trees', Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 19 November-31 December 2005 The decoration of the helmet is of a style employed by the distinguished late 16th century armourer Pompeo della Chiesa (recorded 1571-93) who had his workshop in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan (Norman 1986, p. 31).His signature occurs on similarly decorated armours in the collections of the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton House, Wiltshire, the Museo Stibbert, Florence, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Armoury of the Knights of St John at Malta, the helmet of which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The design was also employed by several of Pompeo's Milanese contemporaries, including one who signed himself with the initials IFP on an armour in the Art Institute, Chicago, one who signed himself with a triple-towered castle on pieces in the same collection and an armour formerly in the collection of the Earl of Harrington, one who signed himself with a double-towered castle on an armour in the Museo Civico L. Marzoli, and several detached pieces in the Wallace Collection, London. (For a fuller discussion of these armours, supported by published references, see Thomas Del Mar Ltd in association with Sotheby's, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, London 26 June 2007, lot 263).

A FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET, CIRCA 1550-60, ADAPTED TO FUNERARY USE IN ENGLAND, PROBABLY IN THE 17TH CENTURY, AND FITTED WITH AN ITALIAN BARRED FACE-DEFENCE FOR USE IN THE GIOCO DEL PONTE, PISA, 18TH CENTURY with one-piece skull rising to a high boldly-roped medial comb (patched at its apex where a spike for the attachment of an heraldic funerary crest was at one time situated, and additionally patched at the left of the neck), and fitted at the front with a barred face-defence and a bevor attached by common pivots, the face-defence formed of a brow-band and a further U-shaped band that follows the margin of the face-opening, the two bands riveted to one another at their outer ends and fitted with eleven sturdy vertical bars of circular section, the bevor strongly shaped to the point of the chin and fitted at each side with a swivel-hook to engage corresponding pierced studs riveted to the lower edge of the face-defence, and the lower edge of the skull and bevor each flanged outwards to receive a single associated gorget-plate formed in two halve (the right half and part of the left missing, and the helmet heavily oxidised overall and painted black) 36.5 cm; 14⅞ in The Gioco del Ponte was a mock battle fought by two teams of contestants armed with clubs and shields who endeavoured to occupy the old bridge at Pisa now known as the Ponte di Mezzo. It was last fought in 1776 and 1807 (W. J .Karcheski & D. J. LaRocca 2007, pp. 107-18)

A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET OF CUIRASSIER'S TYPE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded skull formed in two halves joined by a turn along the crest of a moderately high medial comb, fitted at its rear with a tapering plume-holder decorated with simple incised ornament (replaced) and at its front with a peak and bevor attached by gilt common pivots (replaced), the obtusely pointed peak fitted on its underside within a U-shaped face-defence cut with eight vertical slots separating bars formed with roped medial ribs, the bevor pieced at its left and right sides respectively with seventeen and eighteen small holes in rosette-formation, and in front of them with two further holes possibly for the attachment of a falling buffe, the face-defence and bevor each secured at their right sides by a swivel-hook and stud, and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges to receive one or more missing gorget-plates (lightly patinated overall) 31.0 cm; 12¼ in

**AN ENGLISH OR FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1560-70 with one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb pierced at its rear with a later transverse hole, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to the skull by common pivots with small radially-fluted domed heads, the forward-sloping visor stepped in front of its broad undivided vision-slit and fitted at the right with a slender lifting-peg (replaced), the prow-shaped upper bevor secured at the right of the chin by a spring-catch (its push-button release replaced) to the lower bevor which is in turn secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a swivel-hook and pierced stud, and two gorget-plates front and rear (the lowest front one and both rear ones restored), the main edges of the helmet decorated with file-roped inward turns accompanied, except around the face-opening of the lower bevor, by a recessed border, and the surface of the helmet with a black finish overall (the left of the skull with a small riveted patch at the left ear and the upper bevor with small chip towards the rear of its upper edge) 29.7 cm; 11½ in

**A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR WITH ETCHED DECORATION, LATE 16TH CENTURY comprising earlier close helmet of circa 1555-60 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb (dented and slightly perforated at its crest), and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it by common pivots (replaced), the visor sloping forward to a centrally-divided vision-slit (the dividing-bar restored) and fitted at its right with a moulded lifting-peg (replaced), the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced at its right with eleven cross-shaped ventilation-holes and secured to the lower bevor at the same side by a pierced stud and swivel-hook (the latter replaced), and two gorget-plates (replaced) front and rear; composite collar formed of two plates front and rear (the lowest in each case of deep form from a pikeman's armour); breastplate formed of a main plate of deep 'peascod' fashion fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets, at its right with a rigid lance-rest having its base pierced with four slots to fit over staples but now attached instead by two screws, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of one lame (restored) fitted at each side with a pair of straps supporting a pendent tasset of five lames (restored); one-piece backplate formed at its lower edge with a short biliobate flange; two pauldrons (not a pair) of asymmetrical design, each formed of seven lames (the lowest four of the right associated, its third and seventh patched, and the lowest five of the left restored); vambraces of fully articulated tubular design (the upper cannon of the left patched), each fitted at its upper end with a turner of three lames (those of the left restored and the second of the right patched) and at its elbow with a bracelet couter of three lames (the first and third of the right patched, the second perforated at the point off the elbow); pair of gauntlets each formed of a flared and pointed tubular cuff closed at the inside of the wrist by an overlapped join, five metacarpal-plates (the first two of the right restored and the last three associated), a knuckle-plate embossed with a roped transverse rib, and a hinged thumb-defence (that of the right restored); fully articulated legharness each formed of a cuisse (the right restored) with a short gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper edge with two extension-plates and at its lower edge with a poleyn of five lames of which the third is formed at its outside with a large medially-puckered oval side-wing; and a pair of integral tubular greaves (restored) each terminating in a broad-toed integral sabaton of nine lames; the main edges of the armour formed with file-roped inward turns, and its surfaces decorated with etched bands and borders of ornament consisting on the helmet of running foliate scrolls involving flower-heads and fabulous beasts and birds, and on all other parts of trophies of arms involving similar devices, all executed on a blackened and stippled ground and enclosed between narrower bands of guilloche See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Clarence H. Mackay, Harbor Hill, Long Island, New York (sold from his estate by Jaques Seligman & Co, New York, 18 July 1939) JWHA Inv. No. 2525 Exhibited Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan, 17 March - 6 July 1948 Worcester Centennial Exposition, Massachusetts, 23 July - 2 August 1948 Hospital Trust Company, Rhode Island, 8 - 31 May 1967 Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1976 - 2013 The helmet resembles both in form and decoration, one forming part of an armour in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (formerly the C. O. von Kienbusch collection), made for William Herbert, First Earl of Pembroke, and described in the inventory taken of his armoury at Wilton House, Wiltshire, in 1558, as 'a millayne dimilance graven and gilt wth the furniture' (J. F. Hayward, 'The Armoury of the first Earl of Pembroke', The Connoisseur, April 1960, pp. 226, 228, fig. 7)

**A COMPOSITE CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, NORTH ITALIAN, LATE 16TH TO EARLY 17TH CENTURY comprising close helmet of cuirassier's type with rounded skull formed in two halves joined along the crest of a low medial comb (bruised and cracked towards its rear) and fitted at the nape with a plume-holder (replaced), peak, face-defence and bevor attached to it by plain common pivots (replaced), the peak of narrow rounded form, the near-vertical face-defence cut at its upper edge with a pair of broad shallow notches serving as vision-slits, and at each side of the front with five vertical ventilation-slots, the face defence and bevor each secured at the right by a pierced stud and swivel-hook (replaced), and the lower edges of the skull and bevor (that of the skull patched at its centre) flanged outwards in each case to receive a pair of rounded gorget-plates (associated); collar of one deep lame front and rear, in each case flanged upwards at the neck-opening to receive at least one additional lame; breastplate formed of a main plate of deep 'peascod' fashion fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets (associated) and flanged outwards at its lower edge (cracked) to receive a fauld of one centrally-divided lame (associated) and fitted at each side with a turning-pin and hooked stud to attach a knee-length tasset of eight lames terminating in a winged poleyn of four lames; backplate formed in one piece with broad shallow neck-openings and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a deep detachable culet of three lames (restored, the lowest disarticulate at its left end); large symmetrical pauldrons each formed of seven lames of which the lowest four protect only over the outside of the arm (all those of the right and the lowest two of the left associated and reworked to fit their present context), and the lowest pierced at its centre with a rectangular slot to attach by means of a projecting turning-pin a fully articulated vambrace fitted at its upper end with a turner of one lame and at its elbow with a winged bracelet couter of three lames (restored); fingered gauntlets each formed of a moderately long flared and round-ended cuff closed at the inside by a riveted join and fitted at the outside with four metacarpal-plates (all associated, one of the right disarticulated at its upper end); and a pair of full-length tubular greaves (restored) each articulated once at the ankle and terminating in an integral square-toed sabaton of eight lames; the main edges of the armour formed with file-roped inward turns and its surfaces decorated with etching on a blackened ground, that of the cuirass consisting of alternating bands of foliate interlace and trophies, the former involving oval cartouches occupied by armoured warriors of the 16th century, and that of the remainder consisting of bands and borders of trophies enclosed by projecting filigree-like volutes interrupted at intervals by trefoils (the armour lightly patinated overall); together with a piece of late 16th century mail later cut and shaped to form a codpiece See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Purportedly Prince Eugene Manice of Savoy-Carignan, Count of Soisson Fechtenback Collection, Schloss zu Laudenbach, sold Cologne 1889, lot 102 K. Schaefer, Munich, 17 April 1930 Julius Böhler, Munich, 20 May 1930 JWHA Inv. No. 1148 Literature Hans Schedelmann, 'Der Waffensammler', Waffen- und Kostümkunde, Vol. 6, 1964, pt.1, pp. 56-7, fig.19 (wrongly recorded among fake armours)

**A CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR FOR A YOUTH, WITH ETCHED DECORATION, 19TH CENTURY IN THE SOUTH GERMAN STYLE OF CIRCA 1540 comprising close helmet with rounded two-piece skull joined by soldering along the base of the left side of its low boldly roped medial comb, fitted at its rear with a broad tapering plume-holder and its front with a 'sparrow's beak' visor and bevor attached by common pivots with low domed heads, the visor stepped beneath its centrally-divided vision-slit, pieced at the right of the upper face of its 'beak' with six small circular ventilation-holes, pierced on the same side of its lower face with two horizontal ventilation-slots and fitted at its right with a baluster-ended lifting-peg, and the bevor secured to the skull at the same side by a spring-catch with push-button release, the lower edges of the skull and bevor each flanged outwards to receive a single rounded gorget-plate; collar of four lames front and rear; one-piece breastplate of rounded medially-ridged form, flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of three lames, the lowest of which is cut with a shallow arch and it fitted to either side of it with an integral tasset of five lames; backplate formed of a central main plate and a pair of side-plates rigidly riveted to one another, and a waist-lame and culet of two lames; large narrow-fronted pauldrons formed in each case of four lames, the lowest connected by a turner with a plain transverse rib to a fully articulated vambrace formed of a tubular upper and lower cannon linked by an intervening winged couter of three lames, open at the inside of the elbow (the wing of the right broken off and preserved separately); mitten-gauntlets each formed of a moderately long, pointed and slightly flared cuff fitted with a shorter separate inner plate, four metacarpal-plates, a transversely-roped knuckle-plate, four finger-plates and a laterally-hinged thumb-defence of four scales (the right detached); cuisses each formed of a long gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper edge two extension-lames and at its lower edge with a winged poleyn of four lames; and a pair of full-length tubular greaves each articulated twice at the ankle and terminating in an integral broad-toed sabaton of nine lames; the main edges of the armour formed with file-roped inward turns and is surfaces etched in bands and borders, on a blackened stippled ground, with scrolling foliage and involving classical and biblical subjects, the latter including David's defeat of Goliath, putti, allegorical subjects and soldiers in both classical and contemporary costume, some in combat See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance The Duque del Infantado, Madrid, May 1931 JWHA Inv. No. 1645 Exhibited Mrs Charles Wilding White, Winchester, Massachusetts, 1 December 1965 - 10 February 1966

**A SOUTH GERMAN ZISCHÄGGE AND COLLAR, EARLY 17TH CENTURY the first of notable weight, comprising rounded one-piece skull originally forming part of a close-helmet, rising to a high medial comb, struck at the left of the brow with the proof-mark of a bullet, fitted at the nape, beneath a slender-plume-holder, with a narrow round-ended neck-guard of five-lames (restored), at the front with an obtusely-pointed pivoted peak (associated and fitted at the rear of its right arm with five blind rivets designed to prevent its metal from delaminating) fitted on its underside with a later triple-barred face-defence (the central bar lacking its retaining-rivet), and at each side with a large hinged cheek-piece of four lames (restored using old metal, the right with a small patch), the uppermost lame in each case cut at the top of its front edge with a shallow outward-flanged notch shaped around the wearer's eye and pierced at its centre with nine small auditory holes in rosette-formation; the second formed of a front and rear section, each of four lames, joined by a hinge at the left and closed by studs and holes at the right; the main edges of both elements, excepting those of the neck-guard of the helmet, formed with plain inward turns, and the subsidiary edges of the helmet bordered by pairs of incised lines (both elements moderately patinated overall) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance The Armoury of Archduke Eugen, Schloss Hohenwerfen, Salzburg, Austria, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 5 March 1927, lot 1064 JWHA Inv. No. 191 Exhibited Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1928-30 Literature Stephen V. Grancsay, Catalogue of Armor: The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, 1961, p. 106

**THE SKULL OF A NORTH EUROPEAN HARQUEBUSIER'S POT, POSSIBLY DUTCH, MID-17TH CENTURY; AND AN UNFINISHED VISOR, 19TH/20TH CENTURY IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY GERMAN STYLE the first of hemispherical form constructed in two halves joined along the crest of a low medial comb, projecting backwards as a short flange to receive a neck-guard, and forwards as a broad obtusely-pointed peak pieced at the centre of the brow with a rectangular hole to accommodate a nasal-bar, the edge of the peak formed with a plain inward turn and the comb enclosed to either side by a pair of incised lines (each side of the skull fitted just above the outer ends of its peak with a later horizontal strip of iron, and the whole heavily corroded and holed); the second of bellows form, probably intended for a close-helmet, only partly worked to its final form and devoid of piercings (oxidised overall) (2) Provenance Probably Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York JWHA Inv. Nos. 3069, 247

**A .800 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK MUSKET OF REGULATION TYPE, CIRCA 1720-30, ENGLISH OR DUTCH with tapering sighted barrel formed in two-stages, moulded at the breech, grooved tang, rounded banana-shaped lock (one side nail replaced), figured walnut full stock (the fore-end with extensive repairs and partly replaced, chips and cracks), moulded about the lock, tang and sideplate, rounded butt formed with a pronounced comb strongly down-curved at the front, brass mounts comprising rounded scrolling side-plate, trigger-guard cut with a pair of flutes on the bow and with foliate terminal, butt-plate with tang of shaped outline, and four moulded baluster-shaped ramrod-pipes (two loose, later ramrod) 115.5 cm; 45 1/2 in barrel A gun with a butt of related form is illustrated Blackmore 1961 p. 75, no. 2.

A GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1560 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high, file-roped medial comb, and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it at each side by common low-domed pivots (replaced), the forward-sloping visor pierced in front of the file-roped step of its centrally-divided vision-slit with six small ventilation-holes at each side, and fitted at the right with a combined wing-headed turning-pin and lifting-peg that fits into shaped notch cut into the upper edge of the associated prow-shaped upper bevor, the latter pierced at its left side with nine small circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation, and at its right with three diagonal ventilation-slots, the upper and lower bevors each secured at the right side by spring catches with push-button-releases, and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges and pierced with three pairs of holes, now plugged with blind rivets, for the leathers that originally attached their gorget-plates, the upper bevor decorated medially and at its upper edge respectively with a band and border each burnished bright, along with the sides of the comb, against an originally black-from-the hammer ground (now cleaned bright, the helmet showing evidence at points of the delamination and cracking of its metal, and two small perforations at the crest of its comb) 26.0 cm; 10¼ in

A GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR TOURNEY USE, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high, file-roped medial comb, and visor and bevor attached to it at each side by common pivots (the left missing) formed in each case of a square-headed bolt secured externally by a domed nut cut with a pair of opposing notches, the skull fitted at the base of the comb with a simply-decorated plume-tube of brass retaining traces of gilding, and pierced to either side of the nape with a pair of holes to accommodate now-missing lacing-eyelets, the deep visor formed with a pair of stepped vision-slits and pierced beneath them at each side of the face with eighteen small circular ventilation-holes arranged in three rows, the bevor pierced over each ear with nine small auditory holes in rosette-formation and fitted just to the front of those of the right with a forked visor-prop, the visor secured to the bevor, and the bevor secured to the skull at the right side in each case by spring-catches with domed push-button releases, and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges and pierced with three pairs of holes for the leathers that originally attached their gorget-plates (lightly patinated overall) 29.0 cm; 11½ in

A COMPOSITE GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, LATE 16TH CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low, file-roped medial comb, and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it at each side by common pivots with flat-heads (replaced), the forward-sloping visor formed with a stepped pair of vision-slits and fitted at its right with a short lifting-peg that also serves as the pull-release for a spring-catch (restored) that secures the visor to the upper bevor, the latter, of gently concave prow-shaped form, pierced at each side with eight small keyhole-shaped ventilation-holes arranged in three columns, the visor nestling within the upper bevor at the front and overlapping it at the rear, the upper and lower bevors each secured at the right side by a spring catch with push-button-release (restored), and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges and pierced with three pairs of holes, now plugged with blind rivets (one at the front missing; the helmet lightly pitted and patinated overall) 26.0 cm; 10¼ in

A COMPOSITE GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1550-60 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low, boldly-roped medial comb, and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it at each side by common, spirally-engraved pivots of brass (replaced), the forward-sloping visor (later notched at the centre of its upper edge) formed with a pair of prominently-stepped vision-slits and fitted at its right with a short lifting-peg (restored) terminating in a spirally-fluted domed head, the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced at each side with six circular and three quatrefoil ventilation-holes, the upper and lower bevors respectively secured at the right side by a spring-catch with push-button-release and a pierced stud with accompanying swivel-hook (in part restored), and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges to receive a pair of gorget-plates (belonging to the same series as one another but not matching), the lower edge of the second in each case formed with a boldly roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border also found at the main edges of the visor and upper bevor, and the surface of the helmet showing traces of an originally black-from-the-hammer (now cleaned bright) 29.3 cm; 11½ in

A CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE IN THE GERMAN STYLE OF THE LATE 16TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it by common pivots with large domed heads of brass, the visor with stepped centrally-divided vision-slits fitted at its right with a short lifting-peg, the upper bevor with near-vertical profile pierced at each side with circular and cruciform ventilation-holes, the lower bevor fitted at the right cheek with a forked lifting-peg, the upper and lower bevors respectively fastened to the lower bevor and skull at their right sides by a spring-catch and a swivel-hook and pierced stud, and two articulated gorget- plates front and rear, the lowest lame at the front of rounded outline and the corresponding lame at the rear of squared outline, each formed at its main edge with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border (some patches of light rust) 32.0 cm; 12½ in

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded skull formed in two pieces joined along the crest of a moderately high file-roped medial comb, flanged outwards at the nape to receive a missing neck-guard, fitted at its forward-sloping brow with a broad obtusely-pointed pivoted peak, at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pieced at its centre with six small auditory holes in rosette-formation, and further fitted just above the hinge of the left one with a later plume-holder (slightly crushed), the helmet formed at its main edges with file-roped inward turns and decorated in low relief at the centre of each cheek-piece with a cinquefoil and elsewhere with bands and borders burnished bright against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 25.5 cm; 10 in

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded skull formed in two pieces joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb, flanged outwards at the nape to receive an obtusely pointed neck-guard of one lame, fitted at its forward-sloping brow with a broad obtusely-pointed pivoted peak and at its left side (originally both sides) with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre with seven small auditory holes in rosette-formation, the helmet formed at its main edges with file-roped inward turns accompanied by narrow grooves and decorated in low relief at the centre of each cheek-piece with a circular panel and elsewhere with bands and borders burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint; the bright surfaces lightly patinated overall and the metal of the left end of the peak showing evidence of delamination) 30.0 cm; 11¾ in

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb, fitted within its front and rear edges respectively with a short obtusely-pointed peak and neck-guard, and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece of symmetrical form, flanged outwards at both its front and rear ends to serve respectively as continuations of the peak and neck-guard, and pierced at its centre with six small auditory holes in rosette-formation, the helmet formed at its main edges with file-roped inward turns accompanied by narrow grooves and, to the inside of them, raised borders burnished bright, like the sides of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 28.5 cm; 10¾ in

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded skull formed in two pieces joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb, projecting forward to a broad obtusely-pointed integral peak struck with the arms of Württemberg, fitted at the nape with an obtusely-pointed neck-guard of one lame and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pieced at its centre with five small auditory holes in dice-formation, the lower front corner of the right cheek-piece fitted with a later single-ended buckle, the helmet formed at its main edges with file-roped inward turns accompanied by narrow grooves and decorated in low relief at the centre of each cheek-piece with a circular panel and elsewhere with bands and borders burnished bright against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) See G. H. Bidermann, Burg Kornberg: Wohnsitz des Ritters Götz von Berl;ichingen, Schwäbisch Hall, 1980, p. 203, pls 199 & 207 for other pieces of armour, including a similar burgonet, bearing the Württemberg mark. 28.0 cm; 11 in

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded skull formed in two pieces joined along the crest of an exceptionally high file-roped medial comb, projecting forward to a broad obtusely-pointed integral peak and backwards at the nape to a rounded integral neck-guard, and fitted around the brow and nape with small lining-rivets and brass rosette-washers (some of the latter missing), and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (the right perhaps associated but from the same series) flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pieced at its centre with five small auditory holes in rosette-formation, the helmet formed at its main edges with notched inward turns and decorated in low relief with bands and borders burnished bright against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 31.0 cm; 12¼ in

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb, projecting forward to an obtusely-pointed integral peak, struck at its point with an indistinct makers mark set within an oval, and the fir-cone quality-control mark of the city of Augsburg, fitted at the nape with an obtusely-pointed one-piece neck-guard and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre with five small auditory holes in dice-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns and its surface retaining its original black-from-the hammer finish (the metal delaminating in parts) 28.5 cm; 11¼ cm

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, PROBABLY AUGSBURG, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a short, high, slender medial comb, fitted at its front edge with an internally-riveted, flat obtusely-pointed peak, at its outward-flanged rear edge with a rounded one-piece neck-guard and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre with five small auditory holes in dice-formation, the front edge of the right cheek-piece struck with the number 197, the skull fitted with an old and possibly original quilted canvas lining, and the front ends of the cheek-pieces with leather loops and ties, in part possibly original, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns and its surface retaining its original black-from-the hammer finish 26.6 cm; 10½ in

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb (the metal of its right side showing some delamination), projecting forward to an obtusely-pointed integral peak (the point bruised and cracked), fitted at the nape with a rounded one-piece neck-guard and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre with five small auditory holes in dice-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns and its surface retaining its original black-from-the hammer finish 28.8 cm; 11¼ cm Compare with lots 478 and 475 below bearing the quality-control mark of the city of Augsburg

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb (the metal of its front end showing some delamination), projecting forward to an obtusely-pointed integral peak, struck at its point with an indistinct makers mark, probably involving the letter'B', and the fir-cone quality-control mark of the city of Augsburg, fitted at the nape with an obtusely-pointed one-piece neck-guard and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre with five small auditory holes in dice-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns and its surface retaining its original black-from-the hammer finish 30.0 cm; 11¾ cm

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb, projecting forward to an obtusely-pointed integral peak, fitted at the nape with an obtusely-pointed one-piece neck-guard and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (the right associated but from the same series) flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre with five small auditory holes in dice-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns and its surface retaining its original black-from-the hammer finish (refreshed with paint) 32.0 cm; 12½ cm Compare with lots 475 and 478 above bearing the quality-control mark of the city of Augsburg

A NORTH GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' COMB MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece crown joined along the crest of a high roped medial comb, and 'swept' integral brim rising to an acute point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a plain inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by twelve lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (two of the latter missing) and fitted at the rear with a later plume-holder, and each side of the crown decorated in low relief with a vertically- symmetrical fleur-de-lis enclosed within a circle bordered by stylised acanthus foliage, burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 26.3 cm; 10¼ in A very similar morion was sold in these rooms from the J. W. Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 20 March 2013, lot 287 (part). 2013

A NORTH GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' COMB MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece crown joined along the crest of a high roped medial comb, and 'swept' integral brim rising to an acute point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a plain inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by twelve lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers and fitted at the rear with two rivets retaining a fragment of a later plume-holder, and each side of the crown decorated in low relief with an octofoil enclosed within a circle bordered by stylised acanthus foliage, burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 29.0 cm; 11½ in

A NORTH GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' COMB MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece crown joined along the crest of a high roped medial comb (repaired at its rear), and 'swept' integral brim rising to an acute point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a plain inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by twelve lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (four of the latter missing) and fitted at the rear with a later plume-holder, and each side of the crown decorated in low relief with a hexafoil enclosed by a circle bordered by stylised acanthus foliage, burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 28.5 cm; 11¼ in

A NORTH GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' COMB MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece crown joined along the crest of a high roped medial comb, and 'swept' integral brim rising to an acute point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a plain inward turn, the base of the crown encircled originally by twelve lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (three of the former and five of the latter missing) and fitted at the rear with two rivets for the attachment of a missing later plume-holder, and each side of the crown decorated in low relief with a hexafoil enclosed within a circle bordered by stylised acanthus foliage, burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 26.4 cm; 10½ in

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' COMB MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece crown joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb, and 'swept' integral brim rising to an acute point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a plain inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by twelve lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (one of the latter missing) and fitted at the rear with a later plume-holder, and each side of the crown decorated in low relief with a large fleur-de-lis burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint, partly scuffed) 26.5 cm; 10½ in

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' COMB MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece crown joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb fitted at its rear with a modern plume-tube attached by solder, and 'swept' integral brim rising to an acute point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a notched inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by ten lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (two of the latter missing), and each side of the crown decorated in low relief with a large fleur-de-lis burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 24.0 cm; 9½ in Two very similar morions were sold in these rooms 25 June 2008, lots 222 & 223

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' COMB MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece crown joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb, and 'swept' integral brim rising to an acute point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a notched inward turn, the base of the crown encircled originally by ten lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (one of the former and two of the latter missing), and each side of the crown decorated in low relief with a large fleur-de-lis burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint, partly scuffed)) 24.3 cm; 9½ in From the same series as lot 486 above

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' COMB MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece crown joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb, and 'swept' integral brim (one side pierced with a later suspension-hole) rising to an acute point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a notched inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by ten lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (one of the latter missing), and each side of the crown decorated in low relief with a large fleur-de-lis burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 24.0 cm; 9½ in From the same series as lot 486 above

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' COMB MORION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece crown joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb, and 'swept' integral brim (one side slightly dented) rising to an acute point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a notched inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by ten lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (one of the latter missing), and each side of the crown decorated in low relief with a large fleur-de-lis burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 24.0 cm; 9½ in From the same series as lot 486 above

AN 80-BORE DUTCH FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY LUCAS VAN SOLINGEN, AMSTERDAM, CIRCA 1690-1700 with octagonal sighted barrel decorated with punched and engraved scrollwork over the breech and ahead of the back-sight, linear mouldings encircling the swamped muzzle and the bore cut with eight narrow grooves, gilt-brass lock with bevelled edges, signed "L. Van Solingen Amsterdam", engraved with wavy linear borders and with small leaf and scrollwork designs, and the pan-cover fitted with swing-out safety-steel, rootwood full stock carved with a series of decorative mouldings in low relief, including a pronounced scrolling swell about the ramrod-pipe, the butt with carved raised cheek-piece and fitted with sliding patch-box cover (the cover with inactive worm damage), full gilt-brass mounts cast in low relief, the butt-plate with decorated tang extending over the length of the comb, the trigger-guard with acanthus finials, the side-plate pierced with a scrollwork pattern involving a figure from mythology driving a chariot, three faceted ramrod-pipes, ornate cartouche-shaped escutcheon cast with a demon mask and coronet, mounts for a sling, horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the fore-end cracked in several places on both sides and chipped in several places along the right-hand edge). 86cm; 33 7/8 in barrel

A 22-BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE, CIRCA 1730 with octagonal twist barrel swamped at the muzzle, inlaid with a silver Bandelwerk design over the breech, with further small silver inlays enclosing the chiselled back-sight and the bore cut with seven grooves, bevelled lock with engraved subsidiary borders and finely engraved with trophies-of-war, the cock and the steel each cut with scrollwork designs on a recessed darkened ground, figured walnut full stock carved with a series of mouldings in low relief over its rear half, including an elaborate scrollwork design about the ramrod-pipe, further scrollwork motifs about the barrel tang, the trigger-guard and the butt carved about both the base of the comb and the cheek-piece, the butt flattened over the length of its underside, with patch-box fitted with sliding cover carved en suite with scrollwork and moving on a button release enclosed by a brass garland cast in low relief, full brass mounts cast in low relief, comprising butt-plate cast and engraved with Laub und Bandelwerk ornament characteristic of the period, solid side-plate cast with figures and animals in an idyllic hunting scene in low relief on a matted ground, the trigger-guard and three faceted ramrod-pipes decorated en suite with the butt-plate, ornate escutcheon involving lion supporters, a bust and a coronet, horn fore-end cap, sling-swivels, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the fore-end crack in two places on both sides). 76cm; 30 in barrel