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A hard hat for Lizard Coast Guard named in red and cream enamel, maker's label "The Cromwell Protector Helmet".

A gold fireman's helmet pin and two other gilt fireman's helmet pin, a crossed hammers gold pin and an axe pin.

An ex-serviceman's pin in the form of a helmet with the letters M.O.T.H. for The Memorable Order of Tin Hats, a South African brotherhood of former front line soldiers founded 1927 together with a gold pin, the finial a field gun and a gold pin in the form of a French horn.

A George III helmet milk jug by Peter and Anne Batemen, London 1797, the body engraved and fluted, 3oz.

Mixed lot of 7 assorted die-cast. Rangers football club team coach. Cararama Road Monster. Corgi 96840 Morris 1000. 2 x Cruz Pendragon 1998 Small Soldiers Helmet. MRC Elvis Pink Cadillac. Racing Collectables Winston World Finals 1996 limited edition 1/5000, damaged box.

French brass Fireman's helmet from the town of D'Aisy complete with its chin straps and helmet plate

Anglo Saxon coin - Kings of England. EDWARD the CONFESSOR [1042-66] silver cut halfpenny. Pointed Helmet type - BUST LEFT. Spink 1180 - £3500 in VF. 0.60g. Cut half penny, broken into 2 pieces and poorly repaired - fragile. EXTREMELY RARE with bust facing left.

CHARLES 1 [1625-49] silver GROAT [4d]. WORCESTER or SALOPIA [Shrewsbury] mint, 1643-4. crude bust, mm. lis/helmet. 1.59g. [Spink 3116 - £1850 in VF; North 2622; Brooker 1176]. Ex - Spink [with tickets]. VERY RARE. Weakly struck in places, as usual. GF/aVF.

Anglo Saxon - Primary phase Sceatta coinage [c.680-710]. SERIES F - silver sceat. obv. bust right with pelleted helmet. rev. cross on steps with 2 annulets. [Spink 781 - £200 in VF; Metcalf 136-7]. dark tone. GVF.

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb (bruised at its apex), projecting forward at the brow to an obtusely-pointed peak stuck at the front with a maker's mark, possibly the letter 'N' between a pair of dots within an oval, and the fir-cone mark of the city of Augsburg, flanged outwards at the rear to receive a matching neck-guard (pierced at the centre of the latter with a pair of later suspension-holes), and fitted 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 surfaces retaining a 'black-from-the hammer' finish overall 29.0 cm; 11? in

A HIGHLY RARE AND IMPORTANT ENGLISH JACK OF PLATE, CIRCA 1580-90 formed of small overlapping square plates of iron with cropped corners, secured by lines of diagonal, vertical, or in some cases horizontal stitches of crossbow twine through holes at their centres between the inner and outer layers of a fabric doublet of 'peascod' fashion with a frontal opening situated slightly to the right of centre and originally closed by laces passing through pairs of reinforced holes, an upstanding collar devoid, like the edges of the arm-openings, of plates, and a short skirt, the whole enclosed between two outer layers of fine linen canvas overlying felted woven wool on the outside and a coarser canvas on the inside of the garment, and decorated with green (perhaps originally white) woollen tufts at the intersections of the stitches (the outer fabric discoloured, worn through at points and split at the shoulders and some points of the waist and the base of the collar) 75.5 cm; 29¾ in Provenance Sir William ffarindon, Worden Hall, Lancashire (sold by auction 1948) A private English collection Literature Alexander de Cosson & William Burgess, 'Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail', Archaeological Journal, Vol. XXXVII, 1881, p. 591 Ian Eaves, 'On the Remains of a Jack of Plate Excavated from Beeston Castle in Cheshire', Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, Vo. XIII, no. 2, September 1989, p. 137, n. 29) The jack of plate - sometimes referred to in contemporary documents as a 'steel coat', a 'plate coat' or a 'coat of plate' - was a uniquely British defence first recognisably mentioned in English and Scottish records of the second quarter of the 16th century (Eaves 1989, pp. 85-6 & 144, n. 48), p. 145, n. 52). The inventory of the holdings of the Office of the Armouries taken on the death of Henry VIII in 1547 mentions 'a Northerne Jack covered with lynnen' and three 'Northern Jackes made of Canvas and plate' (Harold A. Dillon, 'Arms and Armour at Westminster, the Tower and Greenwich', Archaeologia, Vol. LI, 1888, pp. 52 & 57). Although defences of this kind ceased to be manufactured towards the end of the 16th century (Eaves 1989, p.86 & 148, n. 60), their use persisted into the early years of the following century. In 1622 some forty examples were issued from the Armouries of the Tower of London for use in America by the Virginia Company (Eaves 1986, p. 86 & 148, n. 61). William Harrison in his description of England first published in 1577, observed that 'Our armour …consisteth of corselets, almaine riverets, shirtes of mayle, Jacke quilted over wyth leather, fustian or canuas ouer thicke plates of yron that are sewed into the same, and of which there is no towne or village that hath not hir conuenient furniture (in Ralph Holinshead, The First Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, London, 1557, f. 86v). Today, however, only sixteen more or less complete jacks of plate are preserved worldwide. Aside from this and the following lot, eight (only five of which are complete) can be recorded in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, one in the British Museum, London, one in the Royal Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, one in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, and one in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich (Eaves 1989, pp. 135-7, n. 22-6 & 29). Only the last two and one of those in Leeds has its frontal opening offset to one side of centre as on this and the following lot. These lots and the Leeds example formed part of a collection assembled at Worden Hall, Lancashire, by Sir William ffarington (c. 1704-81) sometime after 1765. They are unlikely to have formed part of the Hall's indigenous armoury which was sequestered by Parliament in 1643 (Susan Maria ffarington, The ffarington Papers, Chetham Society, 1856, p. 93), although it was said that one of the three did service, together with a helmet and other pieces, as part of a funeral achievement eventually removed from the ffarington Chapel in Leyland Church in 1816 (De Cosson & Burgess 1881, p. 591). The collection was in due course added to by Miss Susan ffarington in the 19th century. An 18th century inventory of it is preserved in New Zealand while three 19th century ones, dating from 1846 to circa 1870 are privately preserved in England, and refer to '3 Brigandine Jackets (for Bowmen. (Elizn'. A drawing of what is almost certainly one of these jacks is preserved in a manuscript catalogue prepared by the late 18th century Manchester antiquary Thomas Barritt and now preserved in the Manchester City Library (Ancient Armour and Weapons in the Possession of Thos Barrit 1793). The catalogue shows objects both in his own collection and of others that he visited in the north of England. He describes the jack as 'A Bigantine jacket quilted within with square pieces of iron about an inch in diameter and sliding over each other like the scales of fishes, and covered over with strong linen'. One of the Worden jacks (probably that now in the Royal Armouries Museum, inv. No. III.1884) was lent by Miss ffarington to the Exhibition of Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail held in the rooms of the British Archaeological Association in 1881 (De Cosson & Burgess 1881, cat. no. 49, p.591) The collection was sold by a local auctioneer in 1948. The purchaser of the three jacks subsequently lent them to Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire. One of them in due course passed to a private collection in the USA but was in 1982 acquired by the Royal Armouries, H.M. Tower of London, while those forming the present and following lots had from some time before 1981 been sent for conservation to the North Western Museum and Art Gallery Service at Blackburn, Lancashire.

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, LATE 16TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a notably high file-roped medial comb, projecting forward to a broad obtusely-pointed integral peak and rearwards at the nape to a matching integral neck-guard (the latter pierced at its centre with a later suspension-hole), and cut away at each side to receive a hinged cheek-piece (the left missing) flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre with three small auditory-holes in triangular formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with roped or notched inward turns and its surfaces decorated with raised borders and longitudinal bands burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint; the bright metal lightly patinated) 31.0 cm; 12? in

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1550-60 with one-piece skull boxed in four panels and rising at its apex to an acorn finial, its right side struck with the quality-control mark of the city of Nuremberg and its rear pierced with two pairs of later holes set one above the other, fitted at the brow with a broad obtusely-pointed pivoted peak, at its flanged rear edge with a matching one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), 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 seven small auditory-holes in rosette-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns except at the front of the cheek-pieces which have plain partial turns, but are like the former accompanied by recessed borders (the surfaced showing a patchy light patination overall) 29.5 cm; 11? in

A VICTORIAN OTHER RANKS HELMET FOR THE QUEENS OWN GLASGOW YEOMANARY, with white metal skull, brass fittings, brass chin-scales and white horsehair plume (worn, lining removed) 37.0 cm; 14 1/2 in high

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1600-10 with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a high medial comb, fitted internally with a quilted canvas lining sewn to a leather lining-band, within the brow with a fixed obtusely-pointed peak, over its outward-flanged rear edge with a rounded one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), 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 surfaces retaining a 'black-from-the hammer' finish overall (the left cheek-piece pitted) 30.0 cm; 11¾ in

A SOUTH GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, CIRCA 1570-80 with one-piece skull boxed in four panels and rising at its apex to an acorn finial, projecting forward at the brow to an obtusely-pointed integral peak, fitted just above the latter with three lining-rivets of which two retain brass rosette washers, flanged outwards at its rear to receive a matching one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a later suspension-hole), and fitted at each side with a hinged cheek-piece ( the left torn from its hinge and both hinges replaced) 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 notched inward turns accompanied by raised borders, and its surfaces decorated with four radiating raised bands, all burnished bright against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint; some bruising and cracking) 27.0 cm; 10? in

A CENTRAL EUROPEAN ZISCHÄGGE, FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY with one-piece hemispherical crown divided into eight panels by incised lines radiating from a transversely-pierced finial with circular washer decorated around its scalloped edge with punched dots, fitted at the brow with a flat peak having a cusped rear edge and truncated ogival front edge, at its nape with a slightly flaring neck-guard of three upward overlapping lames each having a multi-cusped upper edge, except for the last (associated) which has a single cusp at both its upper and lower edges, the peak pieced at its centre rear with a transverse slot to accommodate a sliding nasal-bar terminating at its upper end in a leaf-shaped finial (corroded at its lateral edges), and retained by a staple and winged-headed locking-screw, the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns and it surfaces retaining a black-from-the-hammer finish (refreshed with paint; the left rear of the skull repaired with a riveted internal patch) 24.0 cm; 9½ in

A GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1600 with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb (with a small welded repair towards its front), projecting forward at the brow to an acutely-pointed integral peak and rearwards at the nape to an obtusely-pointed integral neck-guard (the latter pierced at its centre with a later suspension-hole), and fitted 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 a single small auditory-hole, the right (cracked beneath its hinge) struck at the front with the inventory number '116' beneath a cross, the main edges of the helmet formed with notched inward turns accompanied, except at the fronts of the cheek-pieces by recessed borders (very lightly patinated overall) 25.8 cm; 10? in Provenance The Solothurn Zeughaus, Switzerland

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE'BURGONET, LATE 16TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb (bruised and split towards its rear end), projecting forward to an obtusely-pointed integral peak and rearwards at the nape to a matching integral neck-guard (the latter pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), and fitted at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (associated) flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its centre with five auditory-holes in dice-formation, the front edges of the cheek-pieces connected to one another by a modern barred face defence formed of two horizontal strips and two narrower vertical strips, the main edges of the helmet formed with notched inward turns and its surfaces decorated with raised borders and longitudinal bands originally burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground but later covered, except in the case of the longitudinal bands at each side of the skull, with the same black paint used to refresh the blackened ground 29.0 cm; 11? in

THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLEMAN A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET WITH EMBOSSED DECORATION IN THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' FASHION, CIRCA 1550-60 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low boldly-roped medial comb, flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a single rounded rear gorget-plate, and fitted at front with a visor, upper bevor and bevor attached to it by common pivots with small-radially fluted heads, the visor (cracked at the centre of its upper edge) pierced beneath its stepped centrally-divided vision-slit with two rows of small circular ventilation-holes and fitted at its right with a lifting-peg (restored) serving additionally as a pull-release for a spring-catch (the spring broken) that engages a hole in the upper edge of the slightly prow-shaped upper bevor which is pierced at each side with nine columns of ventilation-holes matching those of the visor, the bevor (its left pivot-hole broken out) pierced at each side with six triangular groups of small circular auditory-holes in rosette-formation, secured to the skull and upper bevor at the right sides by spring-catches with push-button releases, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive two front gorget plates (associated and overlapped in the wrong direction), the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns, and its surfaces decorated with bands and borders, partly raised and partly recessed, all burnished bright against an originally blackened ground (now cleaned to a mottled patina overall) 28.5 cm; 11¼ in

A GERMAN BURGONET WITH EMBOSSED DECORATION IN THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' FASHION, LATE 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY LOW SAXON with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a markedly high file-roped medial comb, projecting forward at the brow to a broad acutely-pointed integral peak and rearwards at the nape to a matching integral neck-guard (the latter pierced at its centre with a later pair of suspension-holes), and fitted at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at the rear of its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard, the main edges of the helmet formed with notched inward turns and its surfaces decorated at each side of the crown with raised fleurs-de-lis and elsewhere with raised medial bands and borders burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against an originally blackened ground (now cleaned to a mottled patina overall; the bright surfaces with some pitting and patches of active rust) 30.0 cm; 11¾ in

A SOUTH GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET CIRCA 1550-60 with one-piece skull rising to a moderately high roped medial comb, fitted at the brow with a broad obtusely-pointed pivoted peak, at its flanged rear edge with a matching one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard, cusped at the centre of its front edge and pierced at its centre with nine small auditory-holes of which eight surround a low circular boss and the ninth occupies its centre, the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns, and its surfaces decorated with recessed bands and borders burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint; the borders lightly patinated in parts) 28.0 cm; 11 in

A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1550-60 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 pivots bearing traces of engraved decoration, the forward-sloping visor fitted within the upper bevor at its front end and over it at the rear, pierced anteriorly with a centrally-divided vision-slit and fitted at its right side with a short mushroom-shaped lifting-peg (replaced) also serving as a pull to release a spring-catch that engages a hole in the slightly prow-shaped upper bevor which is pierced at each side with nine small keyhole-shaped ventilation-slits arranged in four columns, and the lower bevor strongly shaped to the point of the chin and pierced at each side with nine small circular auditory-holes in rosette formation, the lower and upper bevor each secured at the right side by spring-catches with push-button releases (the button in the latter instance replaced), and the lower edges of the skull and lower bevor flanged outwards to receive now-missing gorget-plates (the whole lightly pitted overall) 26.0 cm; 10¼ in

A SOUTH GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET CIRCA 1580-90 with one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb, fitted within the brow with an obtusely-pointed fixed peak, over its flanged rear edge with a matching one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), 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 nine small auditory-holes in rosette formation, the main edges of the helmet formed, except at the front edges of the cheek-pieces, with file-roped inward turns accompanied by narrow grooves, and its surfaces decorated with recessed bands and borders burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint; the borders lightly patinated in parts) 29.5 cm; 11? in

THREE GERMAN OFFICER'S DEGENS, SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY the first with tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, etched and gilt with the crowned rampant lion of Bavaria on each side of the forte, burnished iron hilt including boatshell-guard, a pair of straight quillons and ovoid pommel, and the grip bound with plaited copper wire between burnished iron collars; the second similar, with associated blade; and the third with slender blade double-edged towards the forte, etched and gilt with trophies on a blued panel at the forte, brass hilt retaining traces of silvered finish including plumed helmet pommel the first: 81.0 cm; 31 7/8 in blade (3)

A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1550 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high file-roped medial comb (pierced at its apex with two later holes), and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it at each side by common pivots (replaced), the forward-sloping visor pierced in front of the file-roped step of its centrally-divided vision-slit with nine small ventilation-holes at each side, and fitted at the right with a combined wing-headed turning-pin and lifting-peg that fits into a shaped notch cut into the upper edge of the prow-shaped upper bevor, the latter pierced at its left-side with nine small circular ventilation-holes in rosette formation, and at its right side with three vertical ventilation-slots, the upper and lower bevors each secured at their right sides by spring-catches with push-button releases, the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges (the flange of the bevor internally patched at its centre) 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) 28.0 cm; 11 in

A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET, CIRCA 1530-40 with rounded one-piece skull (originally forming part of a burgonet) rising to a low boldly-roped medial comb and descending to a short stepped integral rear gorget-plate, visor and bevor attached to it at each side by common pivots, the former slightly stepped beneath its centrally-divided vision-slit and fitted at its right with a modern square-headed lifting-peg, and the latter secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a swivel-hook and pierced stud, and fitted with a falling buff of one plate, supported at the right by a sprung stud and decorated medially with a roped rib flanked to either sided by four stepped flutes accompanied in the case of each of the outer three with vertical lines of five ventilation-holes, and a single rounded front gorget-plate, the lower edges of the helmet formed with roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and its surfaces retaining traces of a black-from-the-hammer finish (now cleaned bright; the edge of the crown patched at two points; the visor, falling buff and the front gorget-plate all reworked from authentic elements, the latter cracked at the centre of its lower edge) 29.0 cm; 11? in

A CENTRAL EUROPEAN ZISCHÄGGE, FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY with one-piece hemispherical crown boxed in eight panels radiating from a transversely-pierced finial with circular washer decorated around its scalloped edge with punched dots, fitted at the brow with a flat peak having a cusped rear edge and truncated ogival front edge (chipped at its point), at its nape with a slightly flaring neck-guard of four upward overlapping lames each having a multi-cusped upper edge and the last having a truncated ogival lower edge matching the front edge of the peak, and at each side with a broad cheek-piece now formed only of a single long lame (originally extended downwards by at least one more lame) and pieced at its centre with eight auditory-holes within an almond-shaped boss, the peak pierced at its centre rear with a transverse slot to accommodate a sliding nasal-bar terminating at its upper end in a stepped leaf-shaped finial, and retained by a staple and winged-headed locking-screw, the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns and it surfaces retaining a black-from-the-hammer finish (refreshed with paint; the rear of the skull with a patch of delamination secured by two rivets) 27.0 cm; 10? in

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1600-10 with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a high medial comb (very slightly bruised at the left rear of its crest), fitted internally with a quilted canvas lining sewn to a leather lining-band, within the brow with a fixed rounded peak, over its outward-flanged rear edge with a matching one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), 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 nine small auditory-holes in rosette-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns, and its surfaces retaining a 'black-from-the-hammer' finish overall (the left cheek-piece pitted) 29.0 cm; 11? in

A SOUTH GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, CIRCA 1570-80 with one-piece skull boxed in four panels and rising at its apex to an acorn finial, projecting forward at the brow to an obtusely-pointed integral peak, flanged outwards at its rear to receive a rounded one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a later suspension-hole), and fitted at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (in both cases 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 file-roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and its surfaces decorated with four radiating raised bands, all burnished bright against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint; the lower ends of the cut-outs for the cheek-pieces in both cases patched) 24.3 cm; 9? in

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb, projecting forward at the brow to an obtusely-pointed integral peak stuck at the front with an indistinct maker's mark and the fir-cone mark of the city of Augsburg, flanged outwards at the rear to receive a matching one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), and fitted 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 surfaces retaining a 'black-from-the hammer' finish overall (the skull corroded just to the front of the hinge for the right cheek-piece, and the hinge itself lacking one knuckle) 32.0 cm; 12? in

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial, projecting forward at the brow to an obtusely-pointed integral peak stuck at the front with a maker's mark comprising the initials 'ML ' in a rectangle, and the fir-cone mark of the city of Augsburg, flanged outwards at the rear to receive a rounded one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), and cut out at each side to receive a hinged cheek-piece the right of which is missing and the left associated and pierced at its upper end with seven auditory-holes, the main edges of the helmet formed with inward turns decorated with file-roping except on the cheek-piece, and its surfaces retaining a 'black-from-the hammer' finish overall (the metal of the skull showing some delamination at its left side and the centre of the peak showing some pitting) 33.0 cm; 13 in

A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, MID-16THCENTURY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY AND LATER comprising close helmet with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a low roped medial comb, visor, upper bevor and bevor (the first two restored and associated) attached to it at each side by common radially-fluted pivot (restored), the visor markedly stepped beneath its centrally divided vision-slit and fitted at its right side with a short lifting-peg, and the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced at each side with thirteen small ventilation-holes, and a single gorget-plate front and rear, the former descending to an obtuse point (the latter restored), the upper bevor and bevor each secured at the right side by a swivel-hook and pierced stud; collar, originally of 'Almain' type, formed of three lames front and rear, the lowest of which is in each case deeper than the rest; breastplate formed of a medially-ridged main plate with near-straight upper edge, projecting forward over the belly, fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of three lames (restored), the third cut over the crotch with a shallow arch and fitted to either side of it with an integral tasset of five lames (restored, in part using old reworked lames); backplate with a straight upper edge fitted within its lower edge with a waist-lame (associated and transversely cracked at its left side) flanged outwards to receive a deep culet of four lames (restored); large symmetrical pauldrons formed in each case of seven lames overlapping outwards from the third and largest of them, the lowest connected by a turner with a roped transverse rib to a fully articulated vambrace formed of a tubular upper and lower cannon connected to one another by a winged couter of three lames and closed at the inside of the elbow by fifteen lames overlapping inwards to the eighth; mitten gauntlets (not a pair) each formed of a moderately long, obtusely-pointed cuff (the right restored) with a fixed (originally hinged) inner plate, four metacarpal-plates in the case of the left and five in the case of the right (in both cases associated), a knuckle-plate decorated with a roped transverse rib, five finger-plates (those of the left restored and the last four of the right missing) and a laterally-hinged thumb-defence of four scales (probably restored, the last three scales of the right missing); cuisses (restored) each formed of a gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its convex upper edge with short extension-plate, and at its lower edge with a winged poleyn of five lames; and full-length tubular greaves each opening at their inside, cut at the heel with a slit to accommodate a spur, and at the lower front edge with an arch to accommodate an integral, broad-toed sabaton (restored) of ten lames overlapping inwards to the fifth; the main edges of the armour formed with inward turns, mostly roped and accompanied by recessed borders, and the collar further decorated with recessed bands and borders in the black and white fashion (lightly oxidised and tarnished overall; a few elements disarticulated in places) See note at the front of catalogue for information concerning stands

A PRUSSIAN GENERAL OFFICER'S PICKELHAUBE with leather skull, white metal fittings including detachable spike, helmet plate with enamelled centre, brass chin-scales, black leather cockade, black silk lining and black leather head band 26.0 cm 10 1/4 in high

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET EMBOSSED IN THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' FASHION, CIRCA 1570-80 with one-piece skull boxed in four panels and rising at its apex to a truncated point, projecting forward at the brow to an obtusely-pointed integral peak, flanged outwards at its rear to receive a rounded one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a later suspension-hole), and fitted at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (in each case associated) 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-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns accompanied by raised borders, and its surfaces decorated with four radiating raised bands, all burnished bright against an originally blackened ground (now cleaned to a mottled patina overall) 25.8 cm; 10? in

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1600-10 with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a high medial comb, fitted internally with a quilted canvas lining sewn to a leather lining-band within the brow with a fixed obtusely-pointed peak, over its outward-flanged rear edge with a rounded one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard, pierced at its centre with five small auditory-holes in dice-formation, and struck in the case of the right with the inventory number 128, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns, and its surfaces retaining a 'black-from-the hammer' finish overall (refreshed with paint) 27.0 cm; 10? in

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, PROBABLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb decorated to either side of its crest with an incised line, fitted within the brow with an obtusely-pointed peak and over its outward-flanged rear edge with a rounded one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), and fitted at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (the left associated and reworked at its lower end) flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pierced at its upper end with eight small auditory-holes in rosette-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns, and its surfaces retaining a 'black-from-the-hammer' finish overall (the left cheek-piece pitted) 28.0 cm; 11 in

A CLOSE HELMET IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY WESTERN EUROPEAN STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece skull joined medially by a line of rivets hidden, except at the nape where a tapering plume-tube conceals them, beneath a roped strip of semi-circular section, peak, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to the skull at each side by common pivots, the barred visor variously pierced with small circular ventilation-holes, and the markedly concave upper bevor pierced with four radiating lozenge-shaped holes separated by lines of smaller circular holes, the lower edges of the skull and bevor each flanged outwards to receive a single gorget-plate, the bevor connected to the skull at the right by a simple self-sprung stud and hole, the lower bevor connected to the upper bevor at the left by a swivel-hook and stud, and the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns (lightly patinated overall) 28.5 cm; 11¼ in

‡A FRENCH HELMET FOR AN OFFICER OF THE CENT-GARDES, CIRCA 1854-70 with iron skull, brass mounts including crest, helmet-plate and associated chin-scales (plumes, crest and lining missing, surface rust and areas of wear) 27.0 cm; 10 5/8 in high

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, PROBABLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb, projecting forward at the brow to an obtusely-pointed integral peak, flanged outwards at the rear to receive a matching one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a pair of later suspension-holes), and fitted 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 six small auditory-holes in rosette-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns, and its surfaces retaining a 'black-from-the hammer' finish overall (the metal of the skull showing some delamination at its left side and the centre of the peak showing some pitting) 30.0 cm; 11¾ in

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET EMBOSSED IN THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' FASHION, CIRCA 1560-70 with one-piece skull boxed in four panels and rising at its apex to an acorn-finial, projecting forward at the brow to an obtusely-pointed integral peak, flanged outwards at its rear to receive a missing neck-guard, and fitted 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-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns accompanied by raised or recessed borders, and its surfaces decorated with four radiating raised bands, all originally burnished bright against a blackened ground but now painted black overall) 31.0 cm; 12 ¼ in

A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, LATE 16TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb, the comb enclosed between a pair of narrow raised band and the skull projecting forward to a broad obtusely-pointed integral peak and rearwards at the nape to a matching integral neck-guard (the latter pierced at its centre with a later pair of suspension-holes), and fitted at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (in each case associated but from the same series) flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and in the case of the left one pierced with four small auditory-holes in dice-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with notched inward turns and its surfaces decorated with raised borders and longitudinal bands burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 28.5 cm; 11¼ in

A SOUTH GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, CIRCA 1570-80 with one-piece skull boxed in four panels and rising at its apex to an acorn finial, projecting forward at the brow to an obtusely-pointed integral peak, fitted just above the latter with five lining-rivets of which three retain brass rosette washers, flanged outwards at its rear to receive a rounded one-piece neck-guard (pierced at its centre with a later suspension-hole), and fitted 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-formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and its surfaces decorated with four radiating raised bands, all burnished bright against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint; the bright bands lightly patinated) 25.0 cm; 9? in

AN INDO-PERSIAN HELMET (KULAH KHUD), SHIELD (DHAL) AND ARM DEFENCE (BAZU BAND), LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY each of characteristic form, decorated with celestial masks and exotic beasts on a field of traditional foliage and scrollwork (surface rust throughout, the dhal missing its bosses and enarmes, kulah khud missing its nasal, mail missing throughout the first: 47.5 cm; 18 1/2 in diameter (3)

A PRUSSIAN MITRE CAP, CIRCA 1894-6; A LEATHER HELMET AND AN EPAULETTE, 19TH CENTURY the first: faced in white metal embossed with trophies-of-war, scrolls, the Prussian eagle surmounted by the motto 'Semper Talis' and the Imperial cypher 'FR', red fabric body with silver embroidered tape joins, white silk lining, and leather head band; the second with black leather skull fitted with brass foliate central boss and a single mount for a chin-scale (the other missing, losses); the third with red padded lining and white metal mount the first: 29.0 cm; 11 3/8 in high (3) This type of mitre cap was introduced for parades and special occasions in 1894 and is based on those worn during latter part of Frederick the Great's reign in circa 1785. Chin-scales were introduced two years later in 1896.

Boxes and Objects - a 20th century leather motor biker's helmet; a set of 18th/19th century folding guinea scales (faults); an Anglo-Indian ebony page turner, the grip carved with hound, Irish harp and a naive crown; advertising tins and bottles; 19th century brass weights; qty

A carved stone cigarette box; a bullmouth helmet seashell; another similar; a pearlescent gold mouth shell; a carved wood tray (5)

Copper and brass - a helmet shaped copper coal scuttle; a brass companion set; a brass letter rack; a pair of steel and brass counter balance kitchen scales.

A set of five graduated copper pans; a helmet shaped copper coal scuttle; a brass planter. (7)

A VICTORIAN COPPER HELMET SHAPED COAL SCUTTLE 48CM H AND A COPPER PAN WITH ROLLED RIM AND TWO IRON RINGS

Helmet shaped Copper Coal Scuttle with shovel

A 19th century ebonised walking stick with hallmarked silver handle, a fruitwood walking stick with handle modelled as a monkey's head and an Indian made Eagle Brand pith helmet (3).

A 19th century copper Coal Helmet with swing handle and a copper oval two handled planter.

A pith helmet, inside measurement 16cm x 19cm. Condition - general wear throughout.

A French ceremonial brass fireman's helmet.

Rover Viking Mascot, 1930s A good chrome-plated example, depicting the bearded Viking wearing his winged helmet. Hollow-cast and offered in very good condition. 10cm tall.

Trojan Cars Factory Mascot A 'Trojan in Battle Helmet' mascot, as reputedly fitted to c1924 solid-tyred 'bath on wheels' touring cars. Good visual condition.

Framed/Glazed Large 'Pole Position' Movie Poster A rare original advertisement poster for 'Pole Position'; this striking original advertisement features colourful artwork depicting a menacing looking driver wearing his crash helmet & a driver's view from inside the F1 cockpit. Printed in Italy in the c1970/80s, with Italian text throughout. Linen backed for preservation, then professionally mounted and framed behind Perspex. Approximately 145x105cm (poster).

Knight Accessory Mascot A well-detailed accessory mascot depicting a Knight in armour, with shield and helmet, believed French and c1920s period.

The Motorcyclist' Glass Accessory Mascot A scarce and most-unusual glass mascot in the style of Rene Lalique, depicting the head and pudding-basin helmet of a 1930s motorcycle racer. It features a Red-Ashay style square base and is affixed to a black display mount. Very attractive.