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A military tin helmet, possibly World War I tog. with a vintage Union flag, and a military cap (3)

A brass helmet form coal scuttle etc

An original Everoak racing motor cycle helmet, circa 1960, with ACU transfer and 5 motor cycle racing books

A Durham Constabulary helmet badge and a set of other constabulary and military badges

A miniature Hussar`s helmet, with stand

A pith helmet with label `Hanoi Hat`

A Bamileke buffalo head helmet mask, with white ebonised and red pigment, 16Ύin (42.5cm) high.

A Makonde lipico helmet mask, with inset hair, 9in (23cm) high and two helmet masks, with cloth, cowrie shell, metal and beadwork. (3)

A Bembe Echawokaba helmet mask, with red and white pigment, 18in (45.6cm) high.

A Bakino Faso helmet mask, with cresting and applied fibre, 23in (58.5cm) high.

A Yoruba Gelede helmet mask, the headdress with an animal and knives, 13½in (34.2cm) high.

A Cameroon helmet mask, with horns and an animal crest, 15½in (39.4cm) high.

A Mende helmet mask, carved with horns and two birds, 18½in (47cm) high.

WWII helmet, family scale, assorted blow torches, lamps etc in one box

Assorted metalwares to include; copper warming pan, helmet scuttle, range kettles etc

A George III silver helmet shaped milk jug, of reeded outline with bright cut engraving, crested, London 1808, approx 11cm h, together with a pair of Walker and Hall silver napkin rings, Sheffield 1921, all in approx 5.1ozt. (3)

A George V silver helmet shape cream jug with reeded border, on square base, Birmingham 1910, Maker W.A.

A George V silver helmet cream jug with reeded loop handle, on square base, Birmingham 1910, Maker C.W, 15 cms h approx

A George III silver helmet shaped milk jug, chased with shield cartouche, crested initials, reeded handle, London 1798; together with a George V silver cream jug, on square pedestal, Birmingham 1922 and an Edwardian silver cream jug, crimped rim, Sheffield, 1905 (3) 7.4 ozt approx

A George V silver helmet shaped cream jug, gadrooned rim, Chester, 1924, an Edwardian silver oval basket, reeded rim and handle, on reeded oval wavy pedestal, Birmingham 1906, and a George V silver sugar bowl, Birmingham, 1918, 10.7ozt all in approx (3)

A late Victorian silver octagonal cream jug, George Unite, Birmingham, 1897, and another late Victorian silver helmet shaped cream jug, Birmingham, 1894, approx 4.2ozt (2)

A collection of fireside items to include a brass coal helmet and shovel, a pair of 19th Century wrought iron fire dogs, a spark guard, kettle, chestnut roaster and fire irons

An Unusual Russian M26 Adrian Style Steel Helmet, the shell retaining much of its original black paint finish, bearing steel comb top and Russian double-headed eagle device to front, the interior with a four-leaf leather liner system.

Two Second World War German Helmet Shells, with Waffen-SS Camo Covers Autumn & Spring Patterns, first and second types.

A Second World War Siebe Gorman Fire-Fighter`s Helmet, complete with bellows foot-pump A National Fire Service Blue Regulation Over-Coat, bearing NFS black buttons.

A Collection of Military Badges. The collection mounted on a card incl. royal marine artillery helmet plate (copy), Connaught rangers, machine gun corps, anodised badges etc. some reproduction items.

A Brass Helmet Coal Scuttle

A German WWII Kriegsmarine desert camouflaged helmet, having decal to one side and all over beige paint, heavy paint loss to top *Buyer Beware! Please note Special Auction Services will not take responsibility for this is item being genuine, or its provenance, age, and quality. Please view the item in person and bid once you have made up your own mind as to what it is, as we cannot refund after the auction.

A German WWII SS M40 helmet, with decal for Croatian Waffen SS Runes *Buyer Beware! Please note Special Auction Services will not take responsibility for this is item being genuine, or its provenance, age, and quality. Please view the item in person and bid once you have made up your own mind as to what it is, as we cannot refund after the auction.

A German WWII M62 Waffen SS helmet, with decal to one side and traces of camouflaged paint *Buyer Beware! Please note Special Auction Services will not take responsibility for this is item being genuine, or its provenance, age, and quality. Please view the item in person and bid once you have made up your own mind as to what it is, as we cannot refund after the auction.

A German transitional WWI / WWII M18 Conversion Allegmeine-SS Parade helmet, in black with decals for SS and Reichsbahn to other side. This helmet is featured in Brian Matthews book "The Military Music & Bandsman… " page 112 overall condition is good and some minor damages and paint loss evident. The full title of Brian Matthews book being "The Military Music & Bandsmen of Adolf Hitler`s Third Reich 1933 - 1945".

(Lots 249-263) The next nine lots are from Part Two of a Private Collection of German WWII helmets A rare German WWII M42 Deutsche Rotes Kreuz helmet, with hand painted red cross to front and having a red cross decal to one side and a Kriegsmarine decal to the other Overall condition is fair. *Buyer Beware! Please note Special Auction Services will not take responsibility for this is item being genuine, or its provenance, age, and quality. Please view the item in person and bid once you have made up your own mind as to what it is, as we cannot refund after the auction.

A German WWII M42 Army helmet, in light green with Kriegsmarine decal to one side *Buyer Beware! Please note Special Auction Services will not take responsibility for this is item being genuine, or its provenance, age, and quality. Please view the item in person and bid once you have made up your own mind as to what it is, as we cannot refund after the auction.

A German WWII camouflaged helmet, the probably M42 having later cloth and metal brace *Buyer Beware! Please note Special Auction Services will not take responsibility for this is item being genuine, or its provenance, age, and quality. Please view the item in person and bid once you have made up your own mind as to what it is, as we cannot refund after the auction.

A German WWII camouflaged M40 helmet, with decal for SS Runes, with applied paint and chicken wire to whole *Buyer Beware! Please note Special Auction Services will not take responsibility for this is item being genuine, or its provenance, age, and quality. Please view the item in person and bid once you have made up your own mind as to what it is, as we cannot refund after the auction.

A German WWII Luftwaffe M62 helmet, having decal to one side and traces of red paint *Buyer Beware! Please note Special Auction Services will not take responsibility for this is item being genuine, or its provenance, age, and quality. Please view the item in person and bid once you have made up your own mind as to what it is, as we cannot refund after the auction.

A George III silver helmet shaped cream jug Peter, Anne & William Bateman, London 1802, with beaded rim, engraved floral swagged decoration and oval reserve with initials, reeded loop handle and square, bright cut base, 6¼in. (16cm.) high. See Illustration.

Corinth (c.375-300 BC), AR Stater, 8.52g, Pegasos flying left, koppa below, rev. head of Athena left, wearing laureate Corinthian helmet over leather cap, chimaera behind, ap below (Pegasi 428; BCD 102), beautiful iridescent tone, extremely fine VAT Status: Margin Scheme View Terms & Conditions

x Vespasian, Sestertius, Rome, laureate head right, rev. ivdaea capta, s c , palm tree with, on right, Jewess seated right in mournful attitude, and, on left, Vespasian standing right, foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium (RIC 167; BMC 543), red-brown patina, almost very fine VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Vespasian, Sestertius, Rome, laureate head right, rev. ivdea capta, s c, palm tree with, on right, Jewess seated right on cuirass in mournful attitude, and, on left, Vespasian standing right, foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium (RIC 168; BMC 545-7), light smoothing in fields, about very fine provenance Gorny & Mosch 204, lot 2130 VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Gallienus (253-68) AE 36.5mm, Antioch ad Maeandrum (Caria), cuirassed bust left, wearing helmet and holding spear and shield, rev. antiox[ewn], bridge, with six arches, spanning the river Maeander, on which is reclining figure of river-god and gateway (cf SNG Von Aulock 8059), not struck-up at the peripheries, good fine, scarce VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

Cnut, Penny, 1.10g, helmet type, Northampton, Leofwine, helmeted bust left, sceptre before. cnvt-rex a, rev. +leofþine on ham, voided short cross, arms extending from two circles within which a pellet, broken annulet with pellet in each angle (N.787; S.1158), attractively toned, a superb example of this issue, extremely fine, very rare for this mint VAT Status: Margin Scheme View Terms & Conditions

Edward the Confessor, Penny, 1.17g, pointed helmet type, Northampton, Aelfwine, bearded, helmeted bust right, sceptre before, rev. +aelfþine on hamtv, short voided cross, each limb terminating in three crescents, pellet within annulet at centre (N.825; S.1179), nearly very fine, extremely rare for this mint provenance Bt. Baldwin, July 1989 VAT Status: Margin Scheme View Terms & Conditions

Aethelred II, Penny, 1.43g, helmet type, Oxford, Brihtwine, armoured bust with radiate helmet left, rev. +b[..]htþine m`o oxna, voided long cross each limb terminating in three crescents over lozenge, a trefoil on each tip (N.775; S.1152), flan crack, toned, very fine, scarce VAT Status: Margin Scheme View Terms & Conditions

A JAPANESE LACQUERED HELMET (JINGASA), LATE EDO OR MEIJI PERIOD of low conical form, the outer surface lacquered with a black vermiculated pattern, three low short gilt central ribs, and a gilt taira (butterfly) mon within a rondel, and the inside lacquered red with gilt speckles (very small chips) 42.5cm; 16 3/4in diameter

A JAPANESE LACQUERED HELMET (JINGASA), LATE EDO OR MEIJI PERIOD of domed form, slightly raised brim strongly up-turned at the front, the outer surface lacquered black and decorated in gilt polychrome with a pair of dragons divided by a gilt crescent mon, and the inside lacquered red (areas of wear, small chips) 35cm; 13 3/4in diameter

**A FINE AND RARE CHINESE DECORATED HELMET, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FOR A MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD with tall skull formed of four iron plates each decorated on the outside in damascened gold with four Lentsa characters above a running five clawed dragon, the plates joined on the inside by a slender iron panel and the outside with two gilt iron panels with engraved shaped foliate projections (two outer panels missing), the top of the skull with a large pierced iron central boss retained by four bud-shaped rivets all thickly encrusted with gold, decorated at the top with an expanded flowerhead, and at the front with a pair of dragons on either side of a central flaming jewel motif, all framed by a pair of ropework bands, the base of the skull encircled by an iron beadwork band surmounted by matching foliate projections secured by a pronounced bud-shaped rivets, all thickly encrusted in gold and with traces of a cheek and nape defences (probably of leather), fitted at the front with a brow-plate decorated in inlaid gold with a symmetrical pattern of scrollwork filled with differing flowerheads, topshells and a central flaming jewel design, pierced shaped peak thickly encrusted in gold and decorated with a design of scrollwork and a central monstrous mask, and retaining much gold throughout (the skull plates with small areas of pitting) 23cm; 9 1/8in high Provenance Morris J. Pinto, Geneva 1990 A helmet with two-piece skull and decorated in a closely related manner is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 2005.270. See D. Larocca 2006, no. 18 pp. 83-4. The five clawed dragon was adopted as a motif on the robes of Government Officials and members of the Imperial family from the 14th Century. It is one of the twelve ornaments, all twelve being present only on the robes of the Emperor.

**AN INDO-PERSIAN HELMET (KULAH KHUD), 19TH CENTURY with hemispherical skull, etched over much of its outer surface with designs of scrolling foliage enclosing shaped vacant rondels previously enriched with gold koftgari, fitted with two slender plume-holders at the front, central spike (slightly bent in profile), and mail neck-defence of butted links (sliding nasal and staple missing) 27.5cm; 10 7/8in high

A COPPER HELMET IN OTTOMAN TURKISH 16TH CENTURY STYLE, MODERN probably for the quincentennial celebration of Mehmet II`s victory in Constantinople on 29th May 1453, decorated with two horizontal bands of strapwork and foliage, fitted with cheek-pieces, peak, and neck defence, and the latter two embossed with floral rondels 34.2cm; 13 1/2in high

**A VICTORIAN OFFICER`S HELMET OF THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY a good example, with silver-plated skull and gilt mounts, fine QVC plate flanked by oak and laurel sprays, mounted with a Garter Star in bright-cut white metal, gilt and enamel, non-regulation narrow tapered chin-chain on leather backing, secured by simple rose ornaments, red plume of the Royal Horse Guards with large gilt rose finial at top, roan leather internal headband with silk lining

**A VICTORIAN OFFICER`S HELMET OF THE ROYAL HORSE GUARDS with silver-plated skull and gilt mounts, QVC plate flanked by oak and laurel sprays, mounted with a Garter Star in bright-cut white metal, gilt and enamel, wide chin-chain on velvet-edged leather backing, secured by rosettes, red plume with small white metal finial at top, roan leather internal headband (minor dents to skull and gilt on helmet-plate somewhat rubbed, upper rays of Star missing, knop of plume-spike damaged and internal bracket missing, causing incorrect plume fitting)

AN ENGLISH VISOR AND UPPER BEVOR IN THE GREENWICH STYLE OF CIRCA 1587, MADE BY THEODORE EGLI, LONDON, 1953-4 the two elements connected to one another by common pivots and fastened by a spring-catch at their right side, the visor shaped at the brow to fit over the front of the comb of an underlying skull and projecting forward to eight vision-slits arranged in two stepped rows, the prow-shaped upper bevor pieced at each side with ventilation-slots of double-ended keyhole form, and each decorated with three recessed vertical bands. 26.0 cm; 10¼ in Provenance Dr Richard Williams, Presteigne, Powys, Wales The Tower of London Armouries, sold Sotheby`s, London, 15 October 1974, lot 22 (part) These pieces were made by Theodore Egli, senior conservator at the Tower of London Armouries, for Dr Richard Williams, to complete an etched Greenwich armet, probably made for Peregine, Lord Willoughby D`Eresby, about 1578 (Claude Blair, `A New Found Greenwich Helmet` Connoisseur Year Book, 1956, pp. 79-84), that he had purchased at the sale of the contents of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, in 1952 (Frank, Knight and Rutley in conjunction with Rutter, Sons & Co, 24 September 1952, part of lot 2067). The helmet was acquired from the collection of Dr Williams`s in 1974 by the Tower of London Armouries who numbered it IV. 577 but removed the present pieces for sale in the same year.

AN ENGLISH OR FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET, CIRCA 1550 with one-piece skull rising to a low boldly roped medial comb pierced at its apex with two large holes, the foremost at one time retaining a later funerary crest, and visor, upper bevor and bevor attached to it by common pivots (the shank of the right replaced and threaded to receive a nut), the visor with stepped centrally divided vision fitted at its right side with a lifting-peg (replaced) that also serves as a pull to release the spring-catch securing it to the upper bevor, the latter of prow-shaped form pieced in a raised rib across the mouth with nine circular ventilation-holes and at its right side with five smaller ventilation-holes in dice-formation, the upper bevor and bevor each secured at their right sides by spring-catches with push-button releases (the button of the catch for the bevor replaced and the hole to receive its catch reinforced with a patch), and two gorget-plates front and rear (the lowest in each case restored), the main edges of the helmet formed with roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and the skull decorated to either side of its comb with a pair of similar recessed bands of which the outer ones diverge just above the nape (pitted and worn overall) 28 cm; 11 in Provenance Athelhampton Hall, Dorset (probably originally from Puddletown Church, Dorset) Christie`s 8 December 1946, lot 146 The helmet owes its survival to having been suspended over an English tomb as part of an heraldic funerary achievement. Similar helmets can be seem in the churches of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Netherbury, Dorsetshire, Pembury, Kent, and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire (Francis Henry Cripps-Day, `On Armour Preserved in English Churches, in Guy Francis Laking, European Armour and Arms, Vol. V, 1922, pp. 164-5, 174, 199-200,263 & 266, figs 1597, 1608, 1661 & 1792).

A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT ENGLISH CLOSE HELMET, GREENWICH, CIRCA 1590 with pointed one-piece skull rising to a baluster finial and formed with eight facets separated by pairs of incised lines, its nape fitted with a tubular plume-holder (the tube restored) and its brow with a deep visor shaped to the chin, cut with a trellised face-opening and fitted at its upper edge with a peak decorated at it`s obtusely-pointed front edge with a roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border, the skull and visor flanged outwards at their lower edges to receive missing gorget-plates, the visor secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a spring-catch (restored) and pieced at each side of the neck with holes for the attachment of a removable falling buff, and the helmet decorated throughout with double and single incised lines (worn overall) 24.0 cm; 9½ in Provenance Offered by Samuel J. Whawell to Robert l. Scott, Greenock, Scotland, 1920 Offered by Cyril Andrade to John Woodman Higgins, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1930 Sold Christie`s, London, 20 December 1978, lot 96 Literature Ian Eaves, `A Newly Identified Greenwich Helmet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York`, Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, Vol. XII, no. 6, September 1968, pp. 369-70, pl. CIX. The helmet, made in the royal armour workshops at Greenwich under the mastership of Jacob Halder (1576-1607/8), is one of only three recorded examples of its type. The other two, possessing the same distinctive form of hinged face-defence and peak, are respectively preserved in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, Inv. No. IV. 166 (Dufty and Reid 1968, pl CVI; and Eaves 1988, pp. 367-9, pls CVIII & CXIB) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Acc. No. 14.25.526 (Eaves 1988, pp. CX & CXIA). Both were recorded by Francis Grose as part of the indigenous collections of the Tower of London Armouries in 1786 (Grose 1186 p. 11, pl. IV).

AN ITALIAN MORION IN THE `SPANISH` FASHION, CIRCA 1580, PROBABLY SPANISH formed in one piece with an almond-shaped skull rising to a short backward-directed stalk, and an integral brim turned down at each side and rising to an acute point front and rear, its edge decorated with a file-roped inward turn bordered by a narrow groove (the left of the brim cracked, the rear point pieced with a small suspension-hole),, the base of the crown encircled by fourteen brass-capped lining-rivets with brass rosette washers (a few of the latter missing or incomplete), and the whole retaining its original blued finish, now partly rusetted 28.4 cm; 11¼ in Provenance Sotheby`s 18 July 1966, lot 6 The helmet is one of a large series of both comb and `Spanish` morions offered for sale between the two Wars by W. H. Fenton & Sons of Bond Street, London. According to a later verbal report of his erstwhile armourer, Theodore Egli, they had been obtained by Fenton in Ireland. Others from the series are to be seen in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Eaves 2002, pp. 161-2).

AN ENGLISH OR FLEMISH BURGONET, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with a rounded skull formed in two pieces joined by a turn along the crest of a low medial comb, projecting forward to an obtusely pointed integral peak (later brazed at its centre) backwards to a rounded integral neck-guard (later shortened and with riveted internal patch at its centre), and fitted at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (restored) shaped to fit over the rear of the peak and pierced at its centre with nine small holes in rosette formation, and decorated on the skull with borders and radiating patterns of triple incised lines (pitted and worn overall) 25.5cm; 10in Provenance Christie`s 14 April 1971, lot 35 The helmet can be comparable with one forming part of a three-quarter armour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Acc. No. 55.185.1 (Helmut Nickel, `English Armour in the Metropolitan Museum`, The Connoisseur, November b1969, p. 203, fig. 16), and another sold by Sotheby`s, Summers Place, 8 December 1997, lot 50. Elements of similarly decorated armour can be recorded in former armouries of Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, now in the guardianship of the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, and the Tollemache family at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk.

A SOUTH GERMAN FINGERED GAUNTLET FOR THE RIGHT HAND, NUREMBERG, LATE 16TH CENTURY formed of a long flared and pointed cuff with a short fixed separate inner plate, both plates decorated at their upper edges with a file-roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and the outer plate decorated over the ulna with a small almond-shaped boss, five metacarpal-plates each decorated at the centre of its upper edge with a V-shaped nick, a knuckle-plate decorated with a file-roped transverse rib, a shaped finger-plate, four scaled finger-defences and a laterally-hinged thumb-defence of four scales, the outer plate struck externally with the crested helmet mark of its maker and the quality-control-mark of the City of Nuremberg, and internally with a reversed N in a circle, also of that city 41.0 cm; 16¼ in Provenance Possibly from the collections of the Dukes of Brunswick, at Wolfenbuttel, Lower Saxony Anon. sold Christie`s, London, 9 April 1975, lot 63 It has been suggested that the gauntlet is the pair to the one for the left hand formerly in the collections of the Dukes of Brunswick which was shown as part of a composite armour in the Exhibition of Arms, Armour and Militaria lent by H.R.H. The Duke of Brunswick at the Tower of London April 10th -October 31st 1952, cat. no.20, pp. 8-9. It is of the same form as the latter and bears the same marks as it, both internally and externally. These same marks are found, however, on other pieces of armour in the former collections of the Dukes of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in the Wartburg, Thuringia (Diener von Scönberg 1812, cat. Nos 48-9) Gauntlets of this length were for wear without vambraces.

**A HEAVY CUIRASSIER CLOSE HELMET, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ITALIAN with heavy rounded skull formed in two pieces joined along a low finely roped comb, flanged outwards at its lower edge to form an integral rear gorget-plate, fitted with pointed peak (one edge with minor damage) and bevor attached by common pivots, the bevor fitted with falling buffe of two lames secured by spring catches, the upper with wide barred sight and the lower with horizontal breath, a single deep front gorget-plate (reattached within the lower edge of the bevor, minor repairs), the principal edges with finely roped turns accompanied at the main edges by recessed borders and at the subsidiary edges with single incised lines, and brass-capped iron lining-rivets throughout (light patination) 29.2cm; 11 1/2in high Provenance The Property of a Nobleman, sold Christie`s, King Street, 18th March 1987, lot 77. A number of similar helmets are preserved in the armoury of the Knights of St John at Valleta, Malta. See S. C. Spiteri 2003, nos. M1, N12-14, N41, N48 & N51.

A large collection of WWII and Reproduction Military Uniforms and Items (full list available) including cap badges, water bottle carriers, canvas bags, clasp knife, 3 pairs gaiters, 37 pattern belt , reproduction foreign officers service helmet etc (appro

A modern German uniform jacket and a Dutch military jacket , a Desert British patter helmet and a French woodland pattern helmet, also two further similar uniforms and hats. (4)