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A miners leather helmet, dating: circa 1700, provenance: Central Europe, dating: circa 1700, provenance: Central Europe, Sewed with leather, with a small comb and a large brim., height 11 cm.

A closed helmet, dating: 17th Century, provenance: France, dating: 17th Century, provenance: France, Skull in one piece with a small crest, embossed with smooth bands; chanfrin with sharp brim with twisted border, provided with grooves corresponding to the bands; ventail ribbed at the center with slight, rectangular eye-slots and two, airing rosettes. Beaver, neckguard plates and nape-guard en suite with the bands; border en suite with the brim. Restorations and missing parts at the top and at the crest, missing parts at the neckguard plates. This is a fine helmet deserving a proper restoration., length cm.

An interesting folding helmet, dating: 17th Century, provenance: Central Europe, dating: 17th Century, provenance: Central Europe, Sharp, ribbed and hemmed brim at the front, with six grooves at the top; eight plates forming the top up to the base of the head; five nape-guard plates, undulated at the top; divided into two parts, the last one decorated en suite with the brim. , height 36 cm.

A closed helmet, dating: early 17th Century, provenance: France, dating: early 17th Century, provenance: France, Large, two-halves, elongated skull decorated with rayed gleaning joining at the top of the comb and depicting a flower with slightly-relieved petals; comb with smoothly roped border, surmounted by a faceted pine-cone (an antique reparation at the base). The visor adjusted for the comb, the upper margin featuring wide cusps with raisers continuing from the ones at the skull, rectangular eye-slots with a row of brass rivets at the upper margin, the lever on the right side; ventail strongly ribbed at the centre, hemmed at the upper margin, with air holes alternated to brass rivets on both sides; beaver hemmed at the inside margin, provided with two stoppers; two-plate nape -and neck-guard (one restored on a side), with cusped upper borders and row of rivets at the margins; smoothly roped lower border. , height 35 cm.

A late 19th/early 20th century brass merryweather fireman's helmet, the high comb with dragon decoration above an applied crossed axe badge, having rosette ear bosses, leather backed chin scales and leather liner.

A German model 1935 steel helmet with remains of SS decal.

A German 1935 model steel helmet with remains of Danzig decal.

A German Paratrooper's steel helmet, having leather liner and chin straps.

A Napoleonic French eagle shako helmet plate, together with one other shako plate. (2)

An 1878 pattern blue cloth Officer's helmet for the Manchester Regiment, 3rd Volunteer Battalion, circa 1888-1901, having silver plated spike above Regimental plate with rosette ear bosses and velvet backed chin strap, bearing a label to the interior for J.B. Pearse & Co., London, in original metal case.

An early 20th century red and white swan feather wolseley helmet plume, in original cannister.

An NSDAP Nazi party enamelled lapel badge, marked verso RZM M1/157, together with an Afrika Corps pith helmet badge and one other German cap badge. (3)

A German 1935? model combat damaged steel helmet, in camouflage with part hessian covering.

A WW II Brodie pattern steel policeman's helmet, having a leather liner and canvas chin strap, stamped YG 11 HBH 1939, together with one other policeman's helmet, WW II canvas holster and various webbing etc.

A Japanese Samurai suit of armour, circa 1940, comprising of iron helmet with lobster tail neck guard (kabuto,) iron face mask (hooate) with neck guard (nodowa,) chest and back plates (donaka,) arm guards (sode and kote,) waist guard (kusazuri,) and leg guards (haitate) decorated with orange and red embroidered fabric with green red and orange lace fastenings.

An early 19th century engraved silver helmet shaped cream jug, London 1806, makers mark rubbed - approx weight 84g/2.7 troy ozCONDITION REPORTsmall dent to body, scratches to base

A Georgian style silver helmet shaped cream jug, beaded decoration to border, square base, Chester 1901 - approx weight 90g/2.9 troy ozCONDITION REPORTslightly tarnished

A late Georgian engraved silver helmet shaped cream jug, London 1806, monogram to front - approx weight 89g/2.8 troy ozCONDITION REPORTtarnished, remains of BADA sticker

Four British Steel Helmets, including combat example with original liner, chinstrap and camouflage net cover; WW2 Civil Defence fibre helmet with liner and strap, WW2 helmet shell with webbing strap and Post War steel helmet with liner and strap. (4 items)

A XIX Century Copper Helmet Shaped Coal Scuttle, copper shovel, together with brass fire irons, on a stand, brass miners lamp. (3)

A 19th century French gilt brass helmet with feather

A collection of various inkwells including Torquay mottoware examples, French faience ware, Majolica ware, Japanese coppered lead capstan type inkwell, fireman's helmet, various other inkwells, vesta case, Westley Richards & Co. oil bottle, cast iron inkwell stand (formerly gilded), etc

A pair of painted wooden pricket candlesticks and two others, a copper coal helmet, set of brass coat hooks, sconces, two pairs of plated knife rests, a pair of sash cramps, four garden pots etc.

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER MODEL HELMET Issued by Sports Models, half scale replica helmet 2000 Ferrari F1 team including box. Good

AYRTON SENNA MODEL HELMET Issued by Sports Models, a Senna half scale replica helmet 1994 Williams F1 team including box. The name label on the front of the box is torn. Good

A GEORGE III CREAM JUG of helmet form with angular handle and bright-cut leaf engraved frieze, monogrammed, on a square base, by TM, London 1798, 6" high, and an Edwardian cream jug with embossed decoration (c.10.7oz weighable silver) (2)

A GEORGE III CREAM JUG of helmet form with reeded angular handle and square base, monogrammed, makers mark rubbed, London 1788, 7" high, and a Victorian drum mustard pot and associated spoon, (c.8.1oz weighable silver) (2)

A George III silver helmet shaped cream jug, beaded upper rim and gilded interior, square pedestal foot, by Joshua Jackson ?, London 1784, 14cm high, 11cm wide, 103gms

U.S.A, canvass flying helmet, with label TYPE A-9, Large, Property AIR FORCE, US ARMY

U.S.A, leather flying helmet, with label TYPE B-6, Property AIR FORCE, US ARMY

Germany, Third Reich, World War Two, leather flying helmet, by Karl Heister, Berlin

A Victorian brass helmet shaped coal scuttle with swing handle the top embossed with flowers and butterflies, circular foot, 46cm high, late 19th Century

A mixed lot of metalware comprising copper helmet form coal scuttle, log bucket, kettle, warming pan, figures of deer, etc.

A WWI military helmet with later decal.

A full scale fibreglass reproduction of an A. Schrader & Son Inc. Mk V US Navy Standard diving helmet with static fixtures, height 44cm.

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)