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A George III hallmarked silver helmet shaped cream jug, with simple loop handle and stepped square section foot, maker's mark rubbed, London 1815, height 13cm, approx 2.03ozt/63.3g.Additional InformationTraces of gilding to the interior, old repair to the rim and also where the handle meets the body of the jug, rather soft throughout and of poor gauge. Hallmarks clear but makers mark obscured. Foot rim slightly off centre, a tired example.
NATHANIEL APPLETON & ANN SMITH; a George III hallmarked silver helmet shaped cream jug, with double loop handle and embossed detail centred with an engraved cartouche on a spreading circular foot, London 1776, height 10cm, approx 2.72ozt/85g.Additional InformationRepair where the upper handle meets the body of the jug and this seems to be rather compressed, also an old repair around the spout where it has torn. The decoration is probably later, foot is slightly misshapen, a tired example.
A collection of Coalport tea, coffee and dessert ware circa 1800-1815 including a lavender blue ground teapot, cover and stand, cream jug and matching teacup and saucer, pattern 106, teapot, cover and stand 16.5cm h; a dessert tureen, cover and stand painted with flowers, circa 1815, 14cm high; a spiral-fluted coffee cup, 6.5cm high; Coalport coffee mug decorated with flowers, 6.5cm high; a dessert dish painted with a named specimen of the Viola Pedata and gilt border, 19.5cm wide; a helmet-shaped cream jug, an egg stand with eggcups, an early 20th-century slop bowl etc (qty, damages repairs) Provenance: Majority of pieces are ex. Roger Edmundson Collection.
A vintage tin hat box containing a pith helmet, and two leather suitcases. CONDITION REPORT: The hat box is as you see it. It is rusty and has lost much of the original black paint. It does however close correctly and the hinge is in good order. The clasp and lock at the front are in reasonably good order also. We have no key. The pith helmet is in reasonable condition other than the yellowing which can be seen again in the image. Both suitcases are serviceable but somewhat tired and scuffed.
WW2 Home Guard Portrait Painting by Florence Hess 1941.This good quality oil on canvas portrait depicts the head and shoulders of a member of the Home Guard. He wears battledress uniform with tin helmet. To his shoulder a Home Guard title and to his breast Great War medal ribbons. Signed lower right corner “Florence Hess 1941”. Canvas size 19 1/2 x 23 1/2 inchesFlorence Hess (1891-1974) was born in Leeds. Studied at Leeds School of Art and from 1905 with the Yorkshire painter Mark Senior. His subjects were painted in the Yorkshire and Norfolk areas.
The Royal Dragoons Victorian Officer’s 1847 (Albert) pattern helmet.A superb scarce example. The rich gilt skull, mounted with gilt helmet plate overlaid with silver cut star bearing gilt title strap with VR cypher to centre. The ornate gilt plume holder supporting a black horsehair plume with gilt rose head boss. Two gilt rose bosses support leather lined gilt chin chain. Applied acanthus leaf decoration to front and back peaks. Retaining liner but sweatband absent.Minor service wear. VGC
Boer War 1900 Other Rank’s White Foreign Service Helmet.A good rare example of the high crown pattern helmet with wrapped pagri. The interior retaining leather sweatband, this with WD 1900 issue stamp. Complete with with button to the crown and brass chinchain with leather backing. Evidence of a helmet plate having been worn to the front. The helmet retains a good shape, with no damage to the cork. Exterior has been whitened.
Royal Sussex Regiment Victorian Officer’s helmet circa 1881-1901.A good example of the Home Service pattern blue cloth helmet complete with gilt metal cruciform base, spike and rose bosses (one a replacement OR’s) supporting an associated velvet backed chin chain. To the front, a fine gilt crowned star bearing silvered Roussillon plume and Maltese cross enamelled regimental device on red velvet centre (small chips); silver “THE ROYAL SUSSEX REGT’ scroll below. The interior retaining leather sweatband but lacking silk top. Service wear. GC
Durham Light Infantry Officer’s helmet circa 1901-14.A good example of the Home Service pattern blue cloth helmet by J.J. Jones, 6 Regent Street, W complete with gilt metal cruciform base, spike and rose bosses supporting velvet backed chin chain. To the front, a gilt crowned star bearing silvered strung bugle on black velvet centre; silver “THE DURHAM LT. INF.’ scroll below. The interior retaining cream leather sweatband with crimson silk top. Gilt dull. Service wear. GC
Army Veterinary Department Edwardian Officer’s Helmet circa 1902-06.A fine rare short-lived example of the Home Service pattern blue cloth helmet complete with gilt metal cruciform base, ball top and rose bosses supporting a velvet backed chin chain. To the front, a fine gilt crowned star bearing silvered AVD monogram on black enamel centre. The interior retaining leather sweatband and tailor’s details of Samuel Gardner & Co of London. VGCThe all Officer Army Veterinary Department was amalgamated with the OR’s of the Army Veterinary Corps in March 1906.
WW2 Japanese Army Combat Helmet & Cover.A very good example, liberated by Telegraphist Victor Roy Bicknell Royal Navy in 1945. The steel combat helmet retains it’s original six panel green cotton field cover with cloth yellow star to the front. The interior with original leather lining and webbing chinstrap. Very good untouched condition. ... Accompanied by British “Dog Tag” with stamped details of Victor Bicknell. Also photocopy of his service papers.The helmet is from the estate of Victor Roy Bicknell who volunteered for service in the Royal Navy as a Boy in April 1944. Qualifying as a Telegraphist he was posted to the Far East and was serving on various postings in this area from April 1945 to November 1946.
WW1 RFC / RAF Issue Pattern Cowl Flying Helmet Tank Corps Interest.A very good supple example of the brown chrome leather balaclava flying helmet. Complete with side ear flaps with front rolls. Forehead tightening straps with steel buckles, also string and leather chinstrap. The interior retaining chamois crown and fur lining. The helmet retains approx 95% of the original fur lining, also WD issue stamp. This example with pencil name of “CAPT R.F. SHAW TANKS”.Captain Reginald Frank Shaw MBE was an early member of the Tank Corps, enlisting in the ranks. A photograph is known of him with his tank at the first tank battle at Amiens on the 15th September 1916, whilst with the 12th Bn. He was commissioned into the Tank Corps on the 28th August 1917 and in March 1919 he was selected to join the South Russia expedition as an instructor, he is listed as Battle Practice and Whippet Tank Instructor. He resigned his commission in March 1920, having been awarded the MBE, Russian Order of St.Vladimir, Order of St. Anne. After service he settled in Staffordshire and during WW2 served with the Stone Fire Service and later was commissioned into the RAFVR. It is believed that the helmet was issued to him during his service in Russia.
WW2 RAF Late C Type Flying Helmet and Wiringbrown chrome leather, multi panel helmet. Leather goggle straps. Elastic chinstrap. Black rubber earcups containing “10A/13466” electrical earphones complete with internal wired loom. Chamois lining with chamois ear donuts. Issue stamps for “Size 3”.
WW2 Australian B Type Flying Helmetdark brown, chrome leather, multi panel helmet. Zip earphone covers. Brown leather strap fastened over the crown and acts as a chinstrap. Forehead tightening strap removed. Chamois lining with “Lasicas Australia” maker’s label. Ink name “402985 Gosper”. Helmet fitted with Gosport tubes and sorbo rubber ear pads holding them in position.
Rifle Brigade helmet plate and 8 badges.A good Victorian Rifle Brigade helmet plate on replaced loops ... Argyll & Sutherland non voided glengarry ... Black Watch 1901-37 glengarry on one loop ... Black Watch of Canada post 1953 glengarry on loops ... Victorian General Pattern militia shako badge on loops ... Royal Scots Fusiliers OSD collar on loops ... SA Engineers collar (loops AF) ... 2 x different cast overseas grenade badges with Arabic on the ball of each. (9 items)
Mid 6th-5th century BC. A bronze archaic period helmet raised from a single sheet, the bowl of domed form with two parallel corrugated ribs to the upper surface, rectangular slot for the face, short flaring neck-guard developing behind the cheek-protectors; applied bronze strip to the rim with rivets forming a moulded band, button pin to the brow. Cf. Bottini et al. Antike Helme. Handbuch mit Katalog, Mainz, 1988, pp.382-8, nos. 5 and 6; for a finer example of such a helmet from the collection of the late Christos G. Bastis, see Sotheby's New York, 9 December 1999, lot 79; see Pflug, H., 'Illirysche Helme' in: Antike Helme, RGZM Monographien 14, Mainz, 1988, pp.43-64; see Connolly, P., Greece and Rome at War, London, 1981; See Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 1, London, 2002. 1.7 kg total, 36cm including stand (14 1/4"). Property of a central London gentleman; previously in an old UK collection; acquired 1991; formerly in the Grossmann family collection, Bavaria, Germany, formed in the 1960s; accompanied by a report by military expert 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.163500-10096, The Illyrian helmet was a clear derivation of the archaic Kegel type, as can be seen from its general form and from the embossed ridge along its lower edge (Connolly, 1981, p.60"). These helmets, characterised by the triangular cheekpieces, appeared at the end of the 8th century BC, with models originally deprived of crest holders. Very soon however the presence of a crest ridge across the top became a characteristic of the type, to which a horse-hair crest would have been fitted. Fine condition, neck guard chipped.
8th-10th century AD. An iron axehead with tubular socket and languettes, curved blade with Y-shaped void, inlaid silver scrolls and rosette to each face, scooped spike to the rear with silver and brass inlay. 296 grams, 20cm (8"). Ex private English collection, 1980s-1990s. Fine condition. LiteratureSee Vegetius Flavius Renatus, Epitoma Rei Militaris, in L’arte militare di Flavio Renato Vegezio, traduzione e commento a cura di Angelini A., Roma, 1984; Vitlianov,S., Старобългарското въоръжение, София, 1996 (Vitlianov, S. Ancient Bulgarian armament, Sofia, 1996, in Bulgarian); Yotov, V., Въоръжението и снаряжението от българското средновековие (VII-XI век), (Arms in Bulgaria in medieval period, 7th – 12th century), Варна 2004; Vagalinsky, L, (ed.), Tsar Samuil (+1014) in battle for Bulgaria, Sofia, 2014; The Tactica of Leo VI, text, translation and commentary by G.T. Dennis, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Washington, 2014.FootnotesBy the third century AD, the axe was forming a firm part of Roman infantryman's weaponry, mainly due to the influence of the Germanic auxiliaries. A good contemporary depiction of marching dromedarii equipped with axes can be seen in a frieze the Arch of Constantine (the Great) in Rome.In his tactica, circa 900 AD, Emperor Leo insists that each cavalryman should be armed with a double-edged axe, furnished with a long, pointed spear-shaped blade hanging from the saddle in a leather case:"Then you will arm the infantry Skoutatoi, who the ancients called oplitai, in a way that they should wear sword, spear and, when necessity arises, a long and wide shield, called thureos, completely round. The shields should be all of identical colour following the bandon (regiment) or tagma (company) of belonging; moreover they should have a helmet furnished on the top of a small plume, slings, double-edged axes, whose blade should be as a sword's blade, from one side, and from the other side as the point of a spear, which will be worn in leather cases, or other axes having a cutting side and round thetheir side, and still other axes double edged as the bipennes".
8th-11th century AD. A Norman or Viking period two-plate iron helmet, skilfully made to accommodate the curvature of the human head and with a point at the apex; contoured so that the top and bottom plates overlap, with iron rivets passing through this overlap to secure them in position; the rivets worked flat into the surface of the helmet, almost invisible from the outside but detectable on the inner surface; the lower rim furnished with an additional series of rivets, probably to accommodate a lining; two attachment loops at the base of either side, where the cheek-plates were originally attached; the plate-junction at the apex with loop, allowing a plume or horsehair streamer to be inserted, or a conical covering plate to be attached; mounted on a custom-made display stand. See Curtis, H. M., 2,500 Years of European Helmets, North Hollywood, 1978; Denny, N. & Filmer-Sankey, J., The Bayeux Tapestry, London, 1966; Kirpicnikow, A. N., Russische Helme aus dem Frahen Mittelalter Waffen- und Kostamkunde, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, pt. 2, 1973; Menghin, W. The Merovingian Period - Europe Without Borders, Berlin, 2007, p.326-7, item I.34.4. 2.29 kg total, 41.5cm including stand, helmet: 836 grams, 20.5cm high (8"). Property of a UK gentleman; formerly in an old private collection formed in the 1980s. Authenticated by I. Eaves, arms and armour consultant; and accompanied by a positive five page report of metallurgic analytical results, written by Metallurgist Dr. Brian Gilmour of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.163719-10098. Helmets of this general profile and with some form of conical crest are a long-lived military fashion commencing in the Black Sea region since the 7th century. The rivetted-plate construction was employed across Europe from the Migration Period through to the 12th century. It is this form which appears on the heads of English and Norman warriors in the Bayeux tapestry. Fine condition. A rare two plate example.
17th-18th century AD. A bell-shaped bronze helmet with adjustable nasal guard and two plume-holders, arabesque details expressed in concentric bands with integral lozengiform lobes, the nasal with recurved upper end and ring. 1.03 kg, nasal: 24cm (9 1/2"). Property of a Middlesex gentleman; previously in a private London collection; formerly with David Aaron Gallery, and before that in a German private collection since 1982. Fair condition.
3rd century BC-1st century AD. A ceramic kalathos storage jar, drum-shaped with flared rim, two arched ledges handles with ropework detailing above; painted decoration comprising ivy-leaf panels below the handles, guilloche bands to the sidewalls, two figural panels each depicting a horseman riding across a field of scrolled tendrils and other ornament with falcata brandished in the right hand, crested helmet, cuirass with skirt of pteruges and tight-fitting breeches. 3.3 kg, 33cm (13"). From an important English collection; acquired in the 1990s. In the fifth century BC came the first written accounts of the Iberian Celts, by such writers as the Carthaginian Himilco, and Herodotus, who calls them the Cynetes. The colonial activities of the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans offered a continuous supply of stimuli to the Celtic populations. The Iberian peninsula had important reserves of precious metals, and the Hallstatt inhabitants of central Europe held important trading links with the area. Scenes of warfare figure highly on the distinctive pottery of the area and could have been of a ritual nature. Large quantities of pottery were found at the hill fort of Numantia. This site is famous for its role in the Celtiberian Wars. In 133 BC the Roman Senate gave Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the task of capturing the city. After thirteen months of siege, the Celtiberians decided to burn their city and die free rather than surrender to Rome. Fine condition, fire damaged and repaired. ( A video of this lot can be viewed on Timeline Auctions website.)
2nd century AD. A hollow-formed gold ring with D-section hoop and expanding shoulders, with a carved carnelian bust of Minerva (Greek Athena) wearing a Corinthian helmet and aegis, long curls framing her delicately carved face. See Spier, J., Ancient Gems and Finger Rings: Catalogue of the Collections. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1992, p. 158, no. 435, for a similar ring with chalcedony intaglio. 3.61 grams, 24.12mm overall, 18.39mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14) (1"). Formerly the property of a Dutch gallery; previously in a private Dutch collection; acquired on the Continental European art market in the late 1990s; accompanied by a copy of a catalogue description and provenance declaration. Dr Bonewitz notes: 'This stone is a very fine example of miniature, three-dimensional carving.' Fine condition.
2nd-3rd century AD. A silver ring with fluted shoulders, inset carnelian cloison with intaglio profile bust of Mars (Greek Ares) with pteruges and helmet. Cf. Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item 197, for type. 4.59 grams, 21.30mm overall, 16.76mm internal diameter (approximate size British H, USA 3 3/4, Europe 6.18, Japan 6) (3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; previously from the 'Sectarian Collection', an important collection of jewellery formed in the 1990s. Fine condition.
Tang Dynasty, 618-906 AD. A substantial ceramic figure of a guard standing on a crescent base, wearing a domed helmet with spike and lateral flaps, pauldrons, segmented cuirass and skirt; the right hand placed on the hip and left hand extended to grip a spear or pole-arm. 22.1 kg, 95cm (37 1/2"). Property of a North London gentleman; previously in a private collection formed in the 1990s; accompanied by a copy of a positive thermoluminescence report issued by Laboratory Kotalla, no.42CM110520. Finely modelled.
Ancient Coins, Greece, Attica, Athens, AR Tetradrachm, New Style, 30mm, 16.7g 4th period, bust of Athena in crested helmet, with two names across fields, right / Owl standing front, wings closed , on amphora, dolphin and trident in field to the right, Svoronos 77,13 EF with attractive toning
Ancient Coins, Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm, c.454-404 BC., 17.1 g, 25mm Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and berry in upper left field, ATE to right; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; SNG Copenhagen 31; Dewing 1591-8, ex stock no. T.Z/IX-57 possibly Spink & Son, EF with attractive toning
Ancient Coins, Greek, Calabria, Tarentum AR nomos, c.344-340 BC, 7.7g, 21mm, Warrior, nude, holding shield and spear, dismounting from horse rearing left; |- below / Phalanthos, nude, holding helmet, riding dolphin left; below, I above waves. Fischer-Bossert Group 47, 653l (V252/R505 – this coin); Vlasto 440 (same obv. die); HN Italy 876, ex Spink & Son L1183 label GVF with some lustre
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