dating: Mid 19th Century provenance: Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Straight, double-edged blade of hexagonal section, bearing at the forte small floral and trophy engravings with gold inlaid on a blue background, some areas with rust damage; hilt made of bronze gilt with mercury, sword-shell shaped as a heart with engraved frames, quillon with center of crossguard in relief, pommel shaped as a helmet with crest, bronze grip engraved to imitate the wire binding. Complete with sword knot and leather scabbard (heavy signs of wear) with gilt brass mounts. Rare. length 95 cm.
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dating: 1830-40 provenance: Papal States, Straight, single-and-false-edged blade with fuller at the first part, then of lenticular section, engraved and gilded on a blue background with trophies and floral motifs at the base. Gilded hilt decorated in high and bas-relief, shell-guard with the iconic Rome Goddess (cf. Calamandrei), cornucopias and winged lions by her side. Quillon and loop-guard decorated with floral and geometrical motifs, pommel shaped as a face with helmet, wooden grip with mother-of-pearl grip scales. Complete of leather scabbard with brass mounts. length 93.5 cm.
dating: 17th Century provenance: Europe, Helmet with skull in two halves, with smooth comb, raisable visor with eye slots and gauntlet, pointed and ribbed ventail, with air holes, beaver with hook, one-plate neck and nape-guard with iron rivets. Chest-plate ribbed at the centre, with blow mark, worked with smooth roping. Two-plate gorget. Complete brassards, with plate worked with outlined edged, iron rivets and ornamental, embossed flower at the pauldrons and at the elbow-pieces. Big gauntlets with long cuffs (without fingers). Lobster-shaped knee-cops with flower decorations, full-leg defense with shoes. Some damages and restorations. height 180 cm.
dating: circa 1600 provenance: Europe, Hungarian style cavalry helmet, composite, with skull in one piece, provided with comb twisted at the border, at the front the twisted, raisable brim with seat for the comb, beaver with two-plate neck-guard, with two folding plate over the beaver, the upper one with cross-shaped eye-slots, the lower one with air holes; two-plate nape-guard, plume-holder; the lower margin hemmed and twisted. Gorget with pauldrons, each one consisting of three plates, ribbed at the front, roped and twisted at the border; pauldrons of seven plates each. Breast-plate strongly ribbed at the centre, with tapul, roped neckline and Nuremberg stamp, with relieved bands at the upper part; mobile gussets, with thick roping; three-plate loin-guard with four-plate tassets, decorated with grooves and twisted roping. Back-plate in two pieces, hemmed at the margins. Gauntlets articulated at the back with scaled fingers. iron spurs with star-rowel. Assembled on a modern, wooden mannequin complete with leather boots and pedestal. The helmet is illustrated in 'Armeria della Rocca di Verucchio', by M. Mauro (Adriapress, Ravenna, 2007) on pag. 36, with three pictures. See also Czerny's sale, Auction 32 (October 8-9th 2011), lot n. 928. The armour too is illustrated in 'Armeria della Rocca di Verucchio', by M. Mauro (with a different helmet), page 30-31. height about 177 cm.
dating: Late 16th Century provenance: Swiss, A burgonet's skull in one piece, with high comb (repairs and small damages on the border); the brim and nape-guard in one piece with the skull, both sharp, with recessed margin, rimmed with fluted decoration and file roped, engraved, twisted border. Black repainting inside and some recent repairs. Mobile cheek-pieces with aerator holes and border en suite with the rest of the helmet. Nape-guard with barely readable stamp (Nuremberg?). Neck-collar with file roped, twisted neckline, two neck plates on both sides and front-plates with gleanings. Breast-plate ribbed in the center with well evident tapul, engraved with Swiss cross in the center, neckline and pauldron small-plates with thick, engraved, twisted roping, two-plate loin-guard; sides with gleanings. Back-plate with recessed margins, fluted decoration at the neckline and loin-guard in one piece with dorsal plate. Swiss pauldrons (two removed parts on the back), provided with thin wings. Complete brassards; upper arm-cannons with festooned, chiselled border and engraved, twisted rotation channel, elbow-piece with flaps in one piece; file roped, engraved, twisted borders. Nine-plate tassets (one with repair and one of recent replacement). A fine ensemble with uncommon features. Support not included. height about 120 cm.
dating: 1868 provenance: Kingdom of Italy, Consisting of a solid, iron breast-plate and a back-plate painted in black, the former with a big, star-shaped, silver-colored badge on a gilded radial pattern, remains of marks and dots inside the gussets. Brass rosette shaped as daisies along the border. Back-plate en suite (lighter, with the same dots at the inside). Complete with armored straps with iron mounts featuring plates and provided with brass rivets and with leather belt with rectangular buckle. In very good conditions. On February, 7th 1868, by order of the Ministry of War, 80 mounted Carabinieri were called in Florence (40 from the Legion of Florence, 20 from the Legion of Milan, 20 from the Legion of Bologna) to be the escort of honor to the royal procession when Princess Margherita of Savoy, marrying Prince Umberto, would solemnly enter the city.The Carabinieri, on this occasion, wore the helmets and breastplates that had already been used in 1842 during the wedding of the Duke of Savoy (future King Vittorio Emanuele II) and the Archduchess Maria Adelaide of Lorraine. Only some details were modified: the iron royal monogram 'CA' of the helmet was replaced by the golden one 'VE'; the iron cross on the chest by a silver star on a large golden rayed pattern; the iron cusped buttons along the edges by round buttons shaped as a daisy. The iron rivets of the armored straps were replaced by similar ones made gilded brass.This breast-plate, in very good conditions, is certainly one of the most beautiful and rare pieces among the Italian Risorgimento ones, since it was manufactured in only a few dozen specimens preserved in the main Italian museums (including the Royal Armory of Turin; the Museum of Artillery of Turin; the Museum of Castel S. Angelo in Rome; the Stibbert Museum in Florence). height 42.5 cm.
Tribal interest, carved wooden helmet possibly Indonesian, with carved buffalo horns and draping shells topped by wooden figure and teeth, 70cm wide together with a Indonesian Sumatra, Batak, container, carved from elephant bone, 12cm high (2) Provenance: From the collection of the late Professor R M Hicks, OBE
German Third Reich Mixed Tinnies. 10 tinnies all with their original tinny type fixing pins. Unidentified tinny eagle over a German helmet in plastic; Strength Through Joy small bronze tinny 1939 in plastic; 25 year Rhineland Youth tinny; Strength Through Joy Ski Day 1938; Gautag Westfalen Dortmund 1936; Strength Through Joy Rhein-main in plastic; Cassel 1935 Day; Day of German Work 1935; Oldenburg 1934; Winter Help Work Gau-Essen 1937, generally good condition (10) £120-£160
Royal Marine Artillery Insignia c.1870-1920. Comprising an O/R helmet plate 1879-1923; scarce forage cap badge 1870; forage cap badge 1914-18; pouch badge 1874-1900 cross gunbarrels with separate crown; Royal Marines helmet plate post 1954; sundry cap badges; and a copy Royal Marine Labour Corps badge, generally good condition (10) £120-£160
Royal Marine Light Infantry Insignia c.1870-1920. Comprising a scarce O/R 3 part glengarry badge 1870-97; a large pattern O/R helmet plate 1878-1902; another 1902-05; Officers small pattern helmet plate 1905; another O/R 1905; forage cap badge 1898-1923; Royal Marine Police scarce chromed cap badge and pair of shoulder titles; and sundry cap badges generally good condition (14) £120-£160
Edinburgh City Police Ceremonial Helmet Plate & Sergeants’ Day Duties Helmet Plate. Two good quality examples, the first in die-stamped white metal (66m x 67mm) features the City Arms and thistle sprays, two lug fasteners. The second in die-stamped brass (60mm x 47mm) shows the City Arms only, two lug fasteners, good condition (2) £100-£140 --- Referenced in John C. Green’s ‘Scottish Insignia as used by Old Police Forces’, p.72.
Two views of Neil Armstrong as a test pilot, the former showing Armstrong in a cockpit of an X-15 rocket plane, and the latter showing Armstrong being assisted out of his helmet after a successful X-15 flight on April 5, 19621960-1962Two vintage gelatin silver prints, the former 23.6 x 18.5 cm (9 ¼ x 7¼ in), NASA Flight Research Center, Edwards, California print, the latter 20.5 x 25.3 cm (8 x 10 in), NASA print with a caption on versoProvenance: from Tim Furniss collection
Charles ConradAlan Bean holds a Special Environmental Sample Container filled with lunar soil collected during the EVA 2. Conrad, who took this picture, is fully reflected in Bean's helmet visorApollo 12, 14-24 November 1969Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), [NASA AS12-49-7278]Footnotes:Pete Conrad took this photograph near Sharp Crater. "I can remember running along and looking up at the Earth," noted Bean. "That's when it would really hit me that we were on the Moon. And I would say, This is the Moon; that's the Earth. I'm really here. And then I would say, I've got to quit doing this... because when I'm doing this, I'm not looking for rocks" (Chaikin, Voices, p. 99)Condition Report: Minor corner crease in lower rightCondition Report Disclaimer
James McDivittFirst frame from a photographic sequence documenting the first American spacewalk: Ed White floats in zero gravity over HawaiiGemini 4, 3 June 1965Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based paper, 25.5 x 20.4 cm (10 x 8 in), NUMBERED NASA S-65-6922 [NASA photo no S-65-30431], with A KODAK PAPER watermarks on the verso (NASA/North American)Provenance: from Tim Furniss collectionFootnotes:This photograph is the first still photograph of a human in space (until this point all released images of astronauts were taken by television or monitoring cameras) and taken by another human. Ed White floated out of the spacecraft wearing a specially designed suit and gold-plated helmet to protect him against unfiltered rays of the sun, as well as emergency oxygen tank. A 25-foot long umbilical line and a tether line connect him to the spacecraft. He used a Hand-Held Manoeuvring Unit (HHMU) to manoeuvre around the spacecraft at more than 100 miles (160 kilometres) above the Pacific Ocean, while James McDivitt took photographs. Aside from being a milestone experiment, this was a thoroughly enjoyable experience for White and he returned to the spacecraft reluctantly commenting: 'It's the saddest moment in my life'. Condition Report: Very goodCondition Report Disclaimer
2nd-3rd century AD. A silver ring with D-section hoop, expanding at the shoulders to a raised oval bezel, set with a later rock crystal intaglio gemstone bearing a male bust left, with semi-naturalistic detailing to the face and hair, wearing a helmet. 18.62 grams, 27.51mm overall, 23.22mm internal diameter (approximate size British S, USA 9, Europe 20, Japan 19) (1"). European art market in the 2000s. UK private collection. Property of a Surrey gentleman. Fine condition. A large wearable size.
2nd century AD. A group of votive terracotta figures comprising: the head of god Serapis, depicted bearded as Zeus, with a bushel of wheat (kalathos) on his head; a head of Isis, with curls on the forehead and the Hathoric crown (Basileion); a head of the goddess Athena (Minerva) with a pseudo-Corinthian helmet on the head; a head of a female deity (Demeter, Aphrodite, Hera?) with two curls of hair tied in a bow on her forehead and the head crowned by a crown (stephane); three female heads with circular earrings and Graeco-Egyptian coiffures; a head of the god Harpokrates, with the typical fingertip just below the lips of his mouth (the point of the finger still visible), long locks and Greek diadem; each mounted on a custom-made display stand. See Savvopoulos, K., 'Popular divine imagery in Hellenistic and Roman Alexandria. The terracotta figurines collection of the Patriarchal Sacristy in Alexandria' in The Annual of the British School at Athens 2019, pp.1-52, figs.14,15,30,39,41-42; for the iconography of Serapis see Milleker, E.J., ‘Three Heads of Sarapis from Corinth’ in Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, vol.54, no.2, Apr.-Jun., 1985, pp.121-135. 170 grams total, 32-59mm high (240 grams total, 54-74mm including stands) (1 1/4 - 2 1/4 (2 - 3)"). North London gentleman, in storage since the 1970s. Property of a West London gentleman. The heads originally belonged to votive statuettes produced in Alexandrian workshops and exported for the cult of Egyptian gods and divinities in the Mediterranean. [8, No Reserve] Fine condition.
7th-6th century BC. A hammered bronze fragment, possibly from a helmet, with an incised war scene depicting two victorious bearded soldiers in charge of four bound prisoners in front of a city with imposing Levantine style palatial structures; the first soldier leading the prisoners carrying a spear, bow, a short sword and a circular embossed shield on his back, the waist protected by a wide belt and wearing a long sleeveless garment, pulling the rope that the prisoners are bound with; the second soldier depicted in a similar fashion, holding the end of the rope; the four prisoners marching in pairs, dressed as dignitaries in full length fringed tunics, fillet with earflaps to the head; mounted on a custom-made display stand. See Parrot, J., Gli Assiri, Milano, 1961; Directorate General of Antiquities, Assyrian Costumes, Les Costumes Assyriens, Baghdad, 1971; Healy, M., The Ancient Assyrians, London, 1991; Barron, A.E., Late Assyrian Arms and Armour, Art versus Artefact, Toronto, 2010; Curtis, J., An examination of late Assyrian metalwork with special reference to Nimrud, Oxford, 2013. 11.6 grams, 10.5cm wide (40 grams total, 10.5cm wide including stand) (4 (4)"). Private family collection formed in London, mid 1980s to early 1990s. Accompanied by an archaeological report by military specialist Dr. Raffaele D'Amato. Fair condition.
4th century BC. A bronze helmet of Chalcidian typology, Kunze Gruppe VIII, the bowl formed from a single piece of metal, slightly peaked with carinated ridge around the top, long nasal and flared rim; moulded band restored around the eyes, the cheek-pieces with restored edges, connected to the bowl by a two-part hinge; traces of tinned surface. See Pflug, H., 'Chalkidische Helme' in: Antike Helme, RGZM Monographien 14, Mainz, 1988, pp. 137—150; Chernenko, E.V., The Scythians 700-300 BC, Hong Kong, 1998; Hixenbaugh, R., Ancient Greek Helmets, a complete guide and catalogue, New York, 2019, figs.X278, X279. 954 grams, 28cm wide (11"). Private collection of Mr M.B., Mainz, Germany, 1990s. Property of a London businessman. Accompanied by an archaeological report by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.11112-183016. Although some specimens have been found in Macedonia, Thrace, Continental Greece (Tithorea, Kalapodi, fragment of helmet of type V, today at the Museum of Lamia, inv. No. B20) and South Italy, the Chalcidian Black Sea group has mainly been found in the area of Greek colonisation and trade, especially around the territories of the actual Crimea and to the East in what is now Georgia and Abkhazia. By the 5th century BC, many of the Scythian kings and nobles opted for ‘foreign’ style Greek helmets and greaves – possibly as a show of prosperity and military richness. Archaeological excavations that pertain to this period have unearthed over 60 fascinating specimens of Greek helmets (mainly of Corinthian and Chalcidian-Attic types) that were actually manufactured in mainland Greece and then shipped across the Black Sea into the Scythian heartlands via the wealthy Greek Bosphoran colonies. The employment of Scythian mercenaries by the Greek cities, also favoured the cultural interchange with the Steppe warriors from a military point of view, with the result that Scythians and Meotians, and then Sarmatians, increasingly purchased or obtained helmets and other weaponry from the Greeks, often remodelling them after their own fashion. Fair condition, restored.
4th-1st century BC. A bronze Scythian, Sarmatian or Sindo-Meothic helmet comprising a rounded bowl with repoussé three-band crest running from the brow over the top to the rear and with lateral scrolls at the brow, a flat circumferential band to the brow and temples with arches above the eyes and a small nasal; two D-shaped side-panels hinged at the upper edge and with a scalloped forward edge; fixing points for a separate crest on the upper face; mounted on a custom-made stand. See Rabinovich, B. Z., Trudy Otdela istorii pervobytnoi kul’tury Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha (Works of the Department of history of prehistoric culture of the State Hermitage) I, Leningrad, 1941, pp.99-171; Bottini, A. et al., Antike Helme. Sammlung Lipperheide und Andere Bestände des Antikenmuseums Berlin, Mainz, 1988, pp.137-150; Erlikh, V. R., Rossiiskaia Arkheologiia (Russian Archaeology) (3), 1996, pp. 176—179 (in Russian); Chernenko, E.V., The Scythians 700-300 BC, Hong Kong, 1998; Shevchenko, N. F., Zaitsev, Yu. P., Mordvintseva V. I. in Vestnik drevnei istorii (Bulletin of Ancient History) (1), 2011, pp.115-152 (in Russian); ????????? ?. ?., '????? ??????????? ??????? ?? ????????? ?????? (Sarmatian Age Helmets from Eastern Europe) ', in Stratum Plus, n. 4, 2014, pp.249-284; Negin, A.E., Negin, A. E., 'Pozdnerimskie shlemy s prodol'nym grebnem', in Germania-Sarmatia II, Kaliningrad-Kursk, 2010, pp.343–58. 550 grams, 25cm (2.5 kg, 42.5cm including stand) (9 3/4 (16 3/4)"). From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; from her collection formed early 1960s-1990s. Accompanied by an archaeological expertise of military specialist Dr. Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.11064-184360. The cultural interchange and the military contacts between the Nomads of Kuban and the Hellenic people allowed the Sindo-Meothic noblemen to equip themselves with such beautiful defensive equipment. Another helmet of the same type, close to the Chalcidian-Attic type, with two ram-shaped plates protruding on the front, with spiral decorations on their surface, was found near the Mezmay village in Kuban. A similar helmet, most likely produced by the same workshop, is a specimen published by A.E. Negin, belonging to the Puskin Fine Arts Museum of Moscow, originally in the collection of S. Karakowskij (Negin, 2010, p.354 no.6"). Fine condition, usage wear.
11th-13th century AD. An Eastern Baltic iron axehead with triangular-section blade widening to a broad bevelled edge, socket with flange to the rear. Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.XC, item 27. 723 grams, 18cm (7"). Property of a London businessman, from his grandfather's collection formed after World War II; thence by descent 1972. During this age, the axes were the favourite weapons of many Baltic people, including the Curonian army which included lightly armed soldiers who fought with spears, shields, fighting knives and axes. A heavily armed soldier could also carry a sword, a helmet, a shield, and a wide-bladed axe. [No Reserve] Very fine condition, professionally cleaned, conserved and restored.
Early 17th century AD. A steel siege helmet, made of two halves and shaped like a sallet; the edge and the neck guard reinforced with rivets, the two halves fastened together by rivets and by a central raised crest, hammered on both sides; the rivets possibly of later date. See for the typology of siege helmets Pyhrr, S.W., European Helmets, 1450-1650, Treasures from the Reserve Collection, New York, 2000, figs.71-72. 5.4 kg, 26cm (10 1/4"). T.S. collection, Austria, 1990s. UK collection. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher. Accompanied by a positive metal test number 184013/HM1468 from an Oxford specialist. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.11091-184013. Used during 17th century wars, these heavy helmets were intended for siege-engineers, sappers and bombardiers who regularly came under fire at close range, receiving stones, arquebus and colubrine shots, as well as various missiles. The bowl and the lower part of the helmet (cheek pieces) were protected by a double thickness of plates, giving the finished helmet a substantial weight of 10 kilos. Interestingly, the shape of our helmet here follows the model of an old Italian sallet, reinforced with a thick crest.[A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions Website.] Fine condition.
Goa, 16th-17th century AD. A brass helmet with upturned pointed rim, with later finial and frontal plume holder, the bowl divided into vertical sections decorated at the base with embossed oriental foliage motifs (fleur-de-lis), the base circled with doomed bosses and two roped bands, brim ornamented by decorative studs. Cf. Presidencia do conselho de Ministros, 'Os Descobrimentos Portugueses e a Europa do renascimento do Renasciemento, A Mao que ao Ocidente o Veu Rasgou' in Armaria XVII Exposicao Europeia de Arte, Ciencia e cultura, Lisboa, 1983, m.80, pp.81-82; Zonneveld, A.G., Van, Traditional weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, Leiden, 2001. 962 grams, 31cm wide (12 1/4"). UK private collection, 2010. Ex central London gallery. Accompanied by a copy of a detailed academic report. This helmet, which copies the shape of steel and iron Portuguese helmets, was part of a group of arms and armour produced in Goa in 16th-17th centuries, commissioned by the Portuguese governors and offered as gifts to the local kings and chiefs as a symbol of high rank granted by the King of Portugal, and as token of gratitude for their loyalty and service to the Crown. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
South Netherlandish or South German, late 16th century AD. A limestone statuette of a soldier seated on a bench supporting his head on his right hand; a close-fitting morion helmet on the head with notched crest and flared neck-guard covering a full head of flowing locks which extend to the shoulders and merge with a long beard; the body enclosed in a tight-fitting muscle-cuirass with pteruges and short puffed sleeves; the bare legs extending to calf-length boots; the left arm cradling the octagonal-section shaft of a spontoon or pike, with socket to the upper end to accept the blade (absent) and horse-hair plume resting on the shoulder; probably one of the figures from a scene of Christ's Resurrection. See Levin, S., Pedemonti, N., Bruno, L., ‘Resurrecting della Robbia’s Resurrection: Challenges in the Conservation of a Monumental Renaissance Relief’ in Hamilton, E., Dodson, K., Objects Specialty Group Postprints, Volume Twenty-Four, 2017, pp. 388–412. 11.5 kg total, 41.5cm including stand (16 1/2"). Art market, France, 2012. Ex central London gallery. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.11116-184115. The Resurrection was one of the more powerful images used to promote the Christian message during the Middle Ages. It usually takes the form of a triumphant Christ stepping out of the tomb in which he had been placed after the Crucifixion while a number of Roman soldiers slumber peacefully around it. The present figure is dressed in a Renaissance interpretation of Roman military clothing, but equipped with a contemporary staff weapon. [No Reserve] [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions Website.] Fine condition.
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