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Lot 98
An extensive First World War Royal Field Artillery Gunner's uniform and effects group, that of 141871 Gnr Robert Kirkwood, comprising a Service Dress tunic and cap, British War medal and fibre identity discs, anti-gas helmet haversack, spurs etc, together with a small group of Imperial German booty comprising a M 1915 Saxon helmet plate, Prussian buckle and shoulder strap, and a Home Guard haversack
Lot 192
A World War II No. 38 Mark II wireless set and headphones, water flask, solid fuel cooker, various satchels, FAP helmet, Civil Defence Corps armbands, etc, khaki cap, wrought iron framed oil lamp, two small suitcases, box of various posters and military photographs and a small quantity of military uniform CONDITION REPORTS Buttons on the blue military jacket are inscribed "Royal Corps of Signals" and the badges to the collar are inscribed "Certa Cito". All items with wear, scuffs and dirt, and items with various damage, losses, rusting, etc. Please see photos for examples.
Lot 732
A pair of early flintlock holster pistols by Wilson of the Minories, London. They have rounded lock plates, trophy of arm side plates, carved shell design at rear of barrel tang, a spurred pommel and an acorn finial on the end of their trigger guards. The brass thumb plate bears the helmet of a Knight. Its embedded design features generally indicate it was made sometime before 1775 and 1780. The breech of the barrels bear raised London proof marks and the barrel maker mark of RW. The address of the Minories together with the makers mark identify the maker as Richard Wilson I who was working between 1725 and his death in 1766. The brass spurred pommels have been tastefully engraved with typical motifs of the Crescent moon and stars associated with the former Ottoman Turkish empire. Both pistols are in excellent condition however one of the ramrods is clearly a replacement and there is extremely minor damage to the stocks. They are offered in an unrelated pistol case which lacks internal fitting and beige lining
Lot 379
BBC TV Series New Tricks (2003-2013), a Coventry Eagle bicycle used by Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong) along with the helmet, basket & cycle clips. Brian Lane used this bicycle for 10 series while he played a detective in the crime drama set in London.Provenance: The bicycle was kept by Alun Armstrong in his home until recently. He is selling the bicycle to raise money for MS Hampshire, Lymington Branch. The bicycle is sold with a hand signed letter of provenance from Alun Armstrong. Please see news article for further information. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/new-tricks-alun-armstrong-auctions-5296249
Lot 178
AN EAST EUROPEAN MAMELUKE-HILTED OFFICER'S SWORD, LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY POLISH with curved blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a reinforced back-edge, etched in imitation of Damascus pattern, decorated with a crescent, trophies-of-arms, a pseudo Turkish inscription and a gilt crescent on each face, gilt-brass hilt decorated with scale pattern on the quillons and with a central lion mask on each side, figured hardwood grip inlaid with silver chevrons arranged in groups of three (small losses), silver back-strap, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with brass mounts cast and chased in high relief with foliage and laurel medallions each filled with an heraldic profile close helmet, and two rings for suspension 82 cm; 32 ¼ in blade
Lot 194
**A GERMAN CLOSE HELMET OF SO-CALLED 'TODENKOPF' FASHION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a low medial comb, peak and bevor attached to it by common dome-headed pivots, the short obtusely-pointed peak formed at its centre with a V-shaped indentation and fitted within its brow with a later U-shaped face-defence pierced with semi-circular eye-openings flanged outwards at their straight lower edges and encircled by countersunk holes, a small sub-rectangular mouth-opening flanged outwards at its slightly curved upper edge, and small circular ventilation-holes arranged in rosette-formation over each cheek, the face-defence and bevor each secured at their right sides by flat-headed studs and swivel-hooks, and a single obtusely-pointed gorget-plate front and rear, its lower edge in each case formed with a plain inward turn accompanied by a recessed border, the centre of which is in each case indented, and the face-defence decorated with slender raised lines, the whole retaining a black-from-the hammer finish, later refreshed with black paint and decorated around its edges with gold paint
Lot 195
A FINELY ETCHED NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET FOR THE FOOT TOURNEY, MILANESE, CIRCA 1590 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial comb, and visor, prow-shaped upper bevor and bevor (the first two restored) attached to it by dome-headed common pivots (replaced), the visor formed with a stepped and centrally-divided vision-slit and fitted at its right side with a projecting lifting-peg, the bevor pierced at the right of the chin with a large hole to receive a locking-screw that projected from the original upper bevor, the skull and bevor fastened to one another at the right of the neck by a pierced hasp and turning-pin, and formed at their lower edges with internally hollowed rims intended to lock over and rotate on the upper edge of a collar, the armour finely etched overall with alternating bands of strapwork and trophies in each case set on a stippled ground respectively gilt and blackened (the gilding only preserved as traces), and separated by plain narrow triple bands 26.5 cm; 10¼ in Provenance Dr. Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, sold American Art Association, New York, 23rd November 1928 John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester Massachusetts Inv. No. 890, sold in these rooms 20th March 2013, lot 291 Exhibited 'Faerie Tale Festival of Trees', Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 19 November-31 December 2005 The decoration of the helmet is of a style employed by the distinguished late 16th century armourer Pompeo della Chiesa (recorded 1571-93) who had his workshop in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan (Norman 1986, p. 31).His signature occurs on similarly decorated armours in the collections of the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton House, Wiltshire, the Museo Stibbert, Florence, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Armoury of the Knights of St John at Malta, the helmet of which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The design was also employed by several of Pompeo's Milanese contemporaries, including one who signed himself with the initials IFP on an armour in the Art Institute, Chicago, one who signed himself with a triple-towered castle on pieces in the same collection and an armour formerly in the collection of the Earl of Harrington, one who signed himself with a double-towered castle on an armour in the Museo Civico L. Marzoli, and several detached pieces in the Wallace Collection, London. (For a fuller discussion of these armours, supported by published references, see Thomas Del Mar Ltd in association with Sotheby's, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, London 26 June 2007, lot 263).
Lot 196
A FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET, CIRCA 1550-60, ADAPTED TO FUNERARY USE IN ENGLAND, PROBABLY IN THE 17TH CENTURY, AND FITTED WITH AN ITALIAN BARRED FACE-DEFENCE FOR USE IN THE GIOCO DEL PONTE, PISA, 18TH CENTURY with one-piece skull rising to a high boldly-roped medial comb (patched at its apex where a spike for the attachment of an heraldic funerary crest was at one time situated, and additionally patched at the left of the neck), and fitted at the front with a barred face-defence and a bevor attached by common pivots, the face-defence formed of a brow-band and a further U-shaped band that follows the margin of the face-opening, the two bands riveted to one another at their outer ends and fitted with eleven sturdy vertical bars of circular section, the bevor strongly shaped to the point of the chin and fitted at each side with a swivel-hook to engage corresponding pierced studs riveted to the lower edge of the face-defence, and the lower edge of the skull and bevor each flanged outwards to receive a single associated gorget-plate formed in two halve (the right half and part of the left missing, and the helmet heavily oxidised overall and painted black) 36.5 cm; 14⅞ in The Gioco del Ponte was a mock battle fought by two teams of contestants armed with clubs and shields who endeavoured to occupy the old bridge at Pisa now known as the Ponte di Mezzo. It was last fought in 1776 and 1807 (W. J .Karcheski & D. J. LaRocca 2007, pp. 107-18)
Lot 197
A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET OF CUIRASSIER'S TYPE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded skull formed in two halves joined by a turn along the crest of a moderately high medial comb, fitted at its rear with a tapering plume-holder decorated with simple incised ornament (replaced) and at its front with a peak and bevor attached by gilt common pivots (replaced), the obtusely pointed peak fitted on its underside within a U-shaped face-defence cut with eight vertical slots separating bars formed with roped medial ribs, the bevor pieced at its left and right sides respectively with seventeen and eighteen small holes in rosette-formation, and in front of them with two further holes possibly for the attachment of a falling buffe, the face-defence and bevor each secured at their right sides by a swivel-hook and stud, and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges to receive one or more missing gorget-plates (lightly patinated overall) 31.0 cm; 12¼ in
Lot 198
A FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET OF CUIRASSIER'S TYPE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with egg-shaped skull formed in two halves joined medially by rivets and embossed with a pattern of sixteen V-shaped flutes radiating from a transversely-pierced finial riveted through a star-shaped washer at its apex, the flutes separated by single incised lines and emphasised at their crests by pairs of incised lines, the skull fitted at its rear with a slender tapering plume-holder and at its front with a narrow obtusely-pointed peak, an upright U-shaped face-defence and a bevor attached to it by common pivots, the face-defence cut at its upper edge with a broad rectangular notch forming the inward-turned file-roped lower edge of a vision-slit, pierced over the mouth with a small lozenge-shaped ventilation-hole, above it with four smaller circular holes in lozenge-formation and at each side with nine similar holes in rosette-formation overlaying a pattern of eight radiating incised lines, the bevor and skull each flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a single gorget-plate of which the front one is more acutely-pointed than the rear, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns accompanied in the case of the peak and gorget-plates by recessed borders, and decorated elsewhere with single incised lines (patinated overall and showing a few small dents, chips and cracks) 30.5 cm; 12 in
Lot 207
**AN ENGLISH OR FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1560-70 with one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb pierced at its rear with a later transverse hole, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to the skull by common pivots with small radially-fluted domed heads, the forward-sloping visor stepped in front of its broad undivided vision-slit and fitted at the right with a slender lifting-peg (replaced), the prow-shaped upper bevor secured at the right of the chin by a spring-catch (its push-button release replaced) to the lower bevor which is in turn secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a swivel-hook and pierced stud, and two gorget-plates front and rear (the lowest front one and both rear ones restored), the main edges of the helmet decorated with file-roped inward turns accompanied, except around the face-opening of the lower bevor, by a recessed border, and the surface of the helmet with a black finish overall (the left of the skull with a small riveted patch at the left ear and the upper bevor with small chip towards the rear of its upper edge) 29.7 cm; 11½ in
Lot 262
**A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR WITH ETCHED DECORATION, LATE 16TH CENTURY comprising earlier close helmet of circa 1555-60 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb (dented and slightly perforated at its crest), and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it by common pivots (replaced), the visor sloping forward to a centrally-divided vision-slit (the dividing-bar restored) and fitted at its right with a moulded lifting-peg (replaced), the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced at its right with eleven cross-shaped ventilation-holes and secured to the lower bevor at the same side by a pierced stud and swivel-hook (the latter replaced), and two gorget-plates (replaced) front and rear; composite collar formed of two plates front and rear (the lowest in each case of deep form from a pikeman's armour); breastplate formed of a main plate of deep 'peascod' fashion fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets, at its right with a rigid lance-rest having its base pierced with four slots to fit over staples but now attached instead by two screws, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of one lame (restored) fitted at each side with a pair of straps supporting a pendent tasset of five lames (restored); one-piece backplate formed at its lower edge with a short biliobate flange; two pauldrons (not a pair) of asymmetrical design, each formed of seven lames (the lowest four of the right associated, its third and seventh patched, and the lowest five of the left restored); vambraces of fully articulated tubular design (the upper cannon of the left patched), each fitted at its upper end with a turner of three lames (those of the left restored and the second of the right patched) and at its elbow with a bracelet couter of three lames (the first and third of the right patched, the second perforated at the point off the elbow); pair of gauntlets each formed of a flared and pointed tubular cuff closed at the inside of the wrist by an overlapped join, five metacarpal-plates (the first two of the right restored and the last three associated), a knuckle-plate embossed with a roped transverse rib, and a hinged thumb-defence (that of the right restored); fully articulated legharness each formed of a cuisse (the right restored) with a short gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper edge with two extension-plates and at its lower edge with a poleyn of five lames of which the third is formed at its outside with a large medially-puckered oval side-wing; and a pair of integral tubular greaves (restored) each terminating in a broad-toed integral sabaton of nine lames; the main edges of the armour formed with file-roped inward turns, and its surfaces decorated with etched bands and borders of ornament consisting on the helmet of running foliate scrolls involving flower-heads and fabulous beasts and birds, and on all other parts of trophies of arms involving similar devices, all executed on a blackened and stippled ground and enclosed between narrower bands of guilloche See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Clarence H. Mackay, Harbor Hill, Long Island, New York (sold from his estate by Jaques Seligman & Co, New York, 18 July 1939) JWHA Inv. No. 2525 Exhibited Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan, 17 March - 6 July 1948 Worcester Centennial Exposition, Massachusetts, 23 July - 2 August 1948 Hospital Trust Company, Rhode Island, 8 - 31 May 1967 Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1976 - 2013 The helmet resembles both in form and decoration, one forming part of an armour in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (formerly the C. O. von Kienbusch collection), made for William Herbert, First Earl of Pembroke, and described in the inventory taken of his armoury at Wilton House, Wiltshire, in 1558, as 'a millayne dimilance graven and gilt wth the furniture' (J. F. Hayward, 'The Armoury of the first Earl of Pembroke', The Connoisseur, April 1960, pp. 226, 228, fig. 7)
Lot 263
**A COMPOSITE CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR IN THE SO-CALLED 'MAXIMILIAN' FASHION, SOUTH GERMAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY AND 19TH CENTURY comprising close helmet with broad rounded one-piece skull (patched at its lower edge) fitted at its rear with a rounded neck-guard of two lames (restored) and at its front with a 'sparrow's beak' visor (restored) and bevor (associated and trimmed to fit) attached by common domed pivots (replaced), the visor stepped below its centrally-divided vision-slit, pierced on the upper surface of its 'beak' with eight small circular ventilation-holes, on the lower surface with ten horizontal ventilation-slots and fitted at its right with a short lifting-peg, and the bevor flanged outwards at its lower edge to form a short integral front gorget-plate and secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a spring-catch with push-button release (replaced); collar of four lames front and rear (the front ones restored and the uppermost rear one associated); breastplate (restored) formed of a rounded main plate with a straight upper edge, fitted at each of its arm-openings with a moveable gusset, at the right of its chest with a folding lance-rest attached by two screws and within its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a fauld of two lames, the lowest of which is cut with a shallow arch separating a pair of tassets of square form, each of four lames (all of the right and the upper two of the left restored) and suspended from a pair of straps; backplate (restored) en suite with breastplate, formed of a main plate fitted within its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a culet of one lames; large symmetrical pauldrons (restored) formed in each case of six lames, the lowest four of which protect only the outside of the arm and are connected by a turner to fully articulated vambrace (restored) formed in each case of a tubular upper and lower cannon linked to one another by an intervening winged couter of three lames open at the inside of the elbow; mitten-gauntlets (the right restored) formed of a short flaring obtusely-pointed cuff closed at the inside of the wrist by an overlapped and riveted join and extending downwards over the metacarpals to two shorter metacarpal-plates and three finger-plates (one of the left patched at its upper end) alternating with three knuckle-plates decorated in each case with boldly roped transverse ribs; and a laterally-hinged thumb-defence formed of a lozenge-shaped main plate having attached to its truncated distal end a small fragment of later Eastern mail; cuisses (restored) each formed of a gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its convex upper edge with a crescentic extension-plate and at its lower edge with a poleyn of four lames, the second of which is shaped to the point of the knee and formed at its outside with a large wing ; and full-length tubular greaves (restored) each fitted within the arched lower edge of its front plate with a broad-toed sabaton of eight lames; the main edges of the armour formed with inward turns of prominent and angled form in the case of those of the neck and arm-openings of the breastplate, and boldly roped in the case of those of the tassets, gauntlets and legharnesss, its surfaces decorated overall, except on the visor, bevor, waist-lames, gauntlets and greaves, with bands and panels of flutes emphasised by pairs of incised lines See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Clarence H. Mackay, Harbor Hill, Long Island, New York (sold from his estate by Jaques Seligman & Co, New York, 9 November 1939) JWHA Inv. No. 2605
Lot 264
**A COMPOSITE CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, NORTH ITALIAN, LATE 16TH TO EARLY 17TH CENTURY comprising close helmet of cuirassier's type with rounded skull formed in two halves joined along the crest of a low medial comb (bruised and cracked towards its rear) and fitted at the nape with a plume-holder (replaced), peak, face-defence and bevor attached to it by plain common pivots (replaced), the peak of narrow rounded form, the near-vertical face-defence cut at its upper edge with a pair of broad shallow notches serving as vision-slits, and at each side of the front with five vertical ventilation-slots, the face defence and bevor each secured at the right by a pierced stud and swivel-hook (replaced), and the lower edges of the skull and bevor (that of the skull patched at its centre) flanged outwards in each case to receive a pair of rounded gorget-plates (associated); collar of one deep lame front and rear, in each case flanged upwards at the neck-opening to receive at least one additional lame; breastplate formed of a main plate of deep 'peascod' fashion fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets (associated) and flanged outwards at its lower edge (cracked) to receive a fauld of one centrally-divided lame (associated) and fitted at each side with a turning-pin and hooked stud to attach a knee-length tasset of eight lames terminating in a winged poleyn of four lames; backplate formed in one piece with broad shallow neck-openings and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a deep detachable culet of three lames (restored, the lowest disarticulate at its left end); large symmetrical pauldrons each formed of seven lames of which the lowest four protect only over the outside of the arm (all those of the right and the lowest two of the left associated and reworked to fit their present context), and the lowest pierced at its centre with a rectangular slot to attach by means of a projecting turning-pin a fully articulated vambrace fitted at its upper end with a turner of one lame and at its elbow with a winged bracelet couter of three lames (restored); fingered gauntlets each formed of a moderately long flared and round-ended cuff closed at the inside by a riveted join and fitted at the outside with four metacarpal-plates (all associated, one of the right disarticulated at its upper end); and a pair of full-length tubular greaves (restored) each articulated once at the ankle and terminating in an integral square-toed sabaton of eight lames; the main edges of the armour formed with file-roped inward turns and its surfaces decorated with etching on a blackened ground, that of the cuirass consisting of alternating bands of foliate interlace and trophies, the former involving oval cartouches occupied by armoured warriors of the 16th century, and that of the remainder consisting of bands and borders of trophies enclosed by projecting filigree-like volutes interrupted at intervals by trefoils (the armour lightly patinated overall); together with a piece of late 16th century mail later cut and shaped to form a codpiece See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Purportedly Prince Eugene Manice of Savoy-Carignan, Count of Soisson Fechtenback Collection, Schloss zu Laudenbach, sold Cologne 1889, lot 102 K. Schaefer, Munich, 17 April 1930 Julius Böhler, Munich, 20 May 1930 JWHA Inv. No. 1148 Literature Hans Schedelmann, 'Der Waffensammler', Waffen- und Kostümkunde, Vol. 6, 1964, pt.1, pp. 56-7, fig.19 (wrongly recorded among fake armours)
Lot 268
**A CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR FOR A YOUTH, WITH ETCHED DECORATION, 19TH CENTURY IN THE SOUTH GERMAN STYLE OF CIRCA 1540 comprising close helmet with rounded two-piece skull joined by soldering along the base of the left side of its low boldly roped medial comb, fitted at its rear with a broad tapering plume-holder and its front with a 'sparrow's beak' visor and bevor attached by common pivots with low domed heads, the visor stepped beneath its centrally-divided vision-slit, pieced at the right of the upper face of its 'beak' with six small circular ventilation-holes, pierced on the same side of its lower face with two horizontal ventilation-slots and fitted at its right with a baluster-ended lifting-peg, and the bevor secured to the skull at the same side by a spring-catch with push-button release, the lower edges of the skull and bevor each flanged outwards to receive a single rounded gorget-plate; collar of four lames front and rear; one-piece breastplate of rounded medially-ridged form, flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of three lames, the lowest of which is cut with a shallow arch and it fitted to either side of it with an integral tasset of five lames; backplate formed of a central main plate and a pair of side-plates rigidly riveted to one another, and a waist-lame and culet of two lames; large narrow-fronted pauldrons formed in each case of four lames, the lowest connected by a turner with a plain transverse rib to a fully articulated vambrace formed of a tubular upper and lower cannon linked by an intervening winged couter of three lames, open at the inside of the elbow (the wing of the right broken off and preserved separately); mitten-gauntlets each formed of a moderately long, pointed and slightly flared cuff fitted with a shorter separate inner plate, four metacarpal-plates, a transversely-roped knuckle-plate, four finger-plates and a laterally-hinged thumb-defence of four scales (the right detached); cuisses each formed of a long gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper edge two extension-lames and at its lower edge with a winged poleyn of four lames; and a pair of full-length tubular greaves each articulated twice at the ankle and terminating in an integral broad-toed sabaton of nine lames; the main edges of the armour formed with file-roped inward turns and is surfaces etched in bands and borders, on a blackened stippled ground, with scrolling foliage and involving classical and biblical subjects, the latter including David's defeat of Goliath, putti, allegorical subjects and soldiers in both classical and contemporary costume, some in combat See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance The Duque del Infantado, Madrid, May 1931 JWHA Inv. No. 1645 Exhibited Mrs Charles Wilding White, Winchester, Massachusetts, 1 December 1965 - 10 February 1966
Lot 270
**A COMPOSITE CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, EARLY 20TH CENTURY IN THE GERMAN 'MAXIMILIAN' STYLE OF THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY comprising close helmet with broad rounded one-piece skull (repaired at its rear) decorated on its upper surface with three low, boldly-roped sub-parallel-combs, fitted at its nape with a slender tapering plume-holder bearing simple incised ornament and at its front with a 'monkey-faced' visor and bevor attached by common pivots with radially-fluted heads (moved backwards and upwards to accommodate the later associated visor), the visor stepped and roped beneath its centrally-divided vision-slit, pieced at either side of the face with four columns of vertical ventilation-slots, decorated with three vertical roped ribs serving as continuations of the combs, and fitted at its right with a baluster-ended lifting-peg, and the bevor (fitted with small riveted extensions just behind the pivots to allow their movement) strongly shaped to the wearer's chin, the visor and bevor each secured at the right by a spring-catch with push-button release, and the lower edge of the skull and bevor each formed with a boldly-roped internally-hollowed rim that locks over and rotates on the turned upper edge of the collar which is formed of two lames front and rear, the lower of which is in each case much deeper than the one above it; breastplate formed of a rounded main plate fitted at each of its arm-openings with a moveable gusset, at its right with a sturdy folding lance-rest decorated peripherally with scallops and secured by two screws, and within its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a fauld of two lames cut at its lower edge with a shallow arch separating a pair of pendent tassets each of four lames; backplate formed of a main plate fitted within its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a culet of one lame with a notch at the centre of its lower edge; large asymmetrical pauldrons formed in each case of six lames fitted at the front of the third and largest of them with an upstanding haute-piece and connected by a boldly-roped internally-hollowed integral turner at the lower end of the lowest of them to the flanged upper edge of a three-piece vambrace formed in each case of a tubular upper and lower cannon linked by internal leathers to a large intervening winged bracelet couter pierced around its upper and lower edges with hearts; mitten-gauntlets each formed of a short slightly flared and rounded cuff fitted with a short separate inner plate, five metacarpal-plates, a transversely-roped knuckle-plate, five finger-plates and a laterally-hinged scaled thumb-defence (the right lacking its distal scales); cuisses each formed of a tall gutter-shaped main plate rising to a convex upper edge and fitted at its lower edge with a winged poleyn of three lames; and full-length tubular greaves each terminating in a broad-toed sabaton of six lames, the last of which is decorated across its front with a boldly roped rib terminating at each end in an embossed whorl; the main edges of the armour turned inwards and boldly roped, except on the couters, and accompanied at most points by single or double recessed borders, and its surfaces decorated overall, except on the visor, bevor, waist-lames, haute-pieces, greaves and parts of the cuisses and poleyns with bands and panels of flutes emphasised by pairs of lines See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Ernst Schmidt, Munich, 29 November 1929 JWHA Inv. No. 1128 Exhibited Worcester Centennial Exposition, The Auditorium, Worcester, Massachusetts, July - August 1948 F. W. Woolworth Co., Worcester, Massachusetts, November - December 1954 WBZ Television, 14 January 1980
Lot 271
**A CAP-A-PIE TILT ARMOUR, 19TH CENTURY IN THE SOUTH GERMAN STYLE OF CIRCA 1560 comprising reinforcing bevor formed in one piece with a prow-shaped face-defence cut away at the right cheek, a raised rib at either side of the neck to accommodate the basal rim of the underlying helmet, a deep integral gorget-plate with a square lower end pierced with holes to attach it to an underlying breastplate, and formed at its right with a projecting flange; collar of five lames front and rear; breastplate formed of a main plate of 'peascod' fashion fitted at its stepped arm-openings with moveable gussets, pierced at its square upper with a pair of threaded holes to attach the overlying reinforcing bevor, fitted at the right of the chest with four pierced staples to attach, with the aid of a pin, a rigid lance-rest with an arm of L-shaped section, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of one lame fitted at each side with a trio of straps supporting a pendent scutiform tasset of two lames; one-piece backplate fitted at each of its upper corners with a hinged shoulder-hasp and formed at its lower edge with a deep flange; asymmetrical pauldrons each of six lames, the right cut away at the front of the armpit to accommodate a lance, the lower edge of its third and largest lame fitted at the rear with a separate plate, and the upper edges of its lowest three lames formed at the front with puckered semi-circular projections; vambraces of fully articulated tubular construction, each fitted at its upper end with a turner of one lame and at its elbow with a winged bracelet couter of three lames, the front of the left wing pierced with a threaded hole to attach a reinforce; the latter formed in one piece, closely shaped to the front of the underlying couter and lower cannon and flaring upwards and inwards over the upper cannon and armpit; fingered gauntlets each formed of a moderately long flared and pointed cuff with a separate hinged inner plate, six metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate, a shaped finger-plate and scaled finger and thumb-defences (all the finger-defences of the right, and one and the distal end of another of the left missing, along with all but the detached main plate of the right thumb-defence); cuisses each formed of a short gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper edge with four detachable extension-lames rising to their outside, and at its lower edge with poleyn of four lames overlapping outwards from the second which terminates at its outer end in a medially-puckered oval wing; and full-length tubular greaves each articulated at the ankle, cut at the heel with a slit to accommodate a spur, and fitted within the arched lower end of its front plate with an integral sabaton of seven lames terminating in a narrow rounded toe-cap; the main edges of the armour, except for those of the reinforces and the lower and outer edges of the tassets, formed with boldly file-roped inward turns (lightly patinated overall with a few small patches of light active rust) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance JWHA Inv. No. 1126
Lot 273
**A SOUTH GERMAN ZISCHÄGGE AND COLLAR, EARLY 17TH CENTURY the first of notable weight, comprising rounded one-piece skull originally forming part of a close-helmet, rising to a high medial comb, struck at the left of the brow with the proof-mark of a bullet, fitted at the nape, beneath a slender-plume-holder, with a narrow round-ended neck-guard of five-lames (restored), at the front with an obtusely-pointed pivoted peak (associated and fitted at the rear of its right arm with five blind rivets designed to prevent its metal from delaminating) fitted on its underside with a later triple-barred face-defence (the central bar lacking its retaining-rivet), and at each side with a large hinged cheek-piece of four lames (restored using old metal, the right with a small patch), the uppermost lame in each case cut at the top of its front edge with a shallow outward-flanged notch shaped around the wearer's eye and pierced at its centre with nine small auditory holes in rosette-formation; the second formed of a front and rear section, each of four lames, joined by a hinge at the left and closed by studs and holes at the right; the main edges of both elements, excepting those of the neck-guard of the helmet, formed with plain inward turns, and the subsidiary edges of the helmet bordered by pairs of incised lines (both elements moderately patinated overall) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance The Armoury of Archduke Eugen, Schloss Hohenwerfen, Salzburg, Austria, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 5 March 1927, lot 1064 JWHA Inv. No. 191 Exhibited Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1928-30 Literature Stephen V. Grancsay, Catalogue of Armor: The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, 1961, p. 106
Lot 279
**THE SKULL OF A NORTH EUROPEAN HARQUEBUSIER'S POT, POSSIBLY DUTCH, MID-17TH CENTURY; AND AN UNFINISHED VISOR, 19TH/20TH CENTURY IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY GERMAN STYLE the first of hemispherical form constructed in two halves joined along the crest of a low medial comb, projecting backwards as a short flange to receive a neck-guard, and forwards as a broad obtusely-pointed peak pieced at the centre of the brow with a rectangular hole to accommodate a nasal-bar, the edge of the peak formed with a plain inward turn and the comb enclosed to either side by a pair of incised lines (each side of the skull fitted just above the outer ends of its peak with a later horizontal strip of iron, and the whole heavily corroded and holed); the second of bellows form, probably intended for a close-helmet, only partly worked to its final form and devoid of piercings (oxidised overall) (2) Provenance Probably Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York JWHA Inv. Nos. 3069, 247
Lot 28
A JAPANESE HELMET BREAKER (HACHIWARA), 19TH CENTURY AND A COMPOSITE NORTH EUROPEAN SWORD, 18TH CENTURY the first with tapering blade, a pair of strongly down-curved quillons, disc-shaped pommel, and the grip bound with rattan; the second with two-stage blade pierced with a series of slots and circles at the forte, a pair of drooping quillons, and compressed bun-shaped pommel the first: 52.7 cm; 20 3/4 in overall (2)
Lot 40
A JAPANESE HELMET (KABUTO), EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY comprising skull of seventy-two rivetted plates, signed Saotome Iehisa on the inside at the back, fitted with mabezashi lacquered red on the underside and decorated with gold sanskrit characters on the outside flanked by silver cloud ornament, scalloped tehen, shikoro of three scalloped black-lacquered lames retained by blue laces (now detached), the uppermost with fukigaeshi applied with a gilt mon of six pellets in a dice formation, with a portion of its lining and chin chord (worn, the skull with surface rust) 15.5 cm; 6 1/8 in high
Lot 425
A GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1560 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 low-domed pivots (replaced), the forward-sloping visor pierced in front of the file-roped step of its centrally-divided vision-slit with six small ventilation-holes at each side, and fitted at the right with a combined wing-headed turning-pin and lifting-peg that fits into shaped notch cut into the upper edge of the associated prow-shaped upper bevor, the latter pierced at its left side with nine small circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation, and at its right with three diagonal ventilation-slots, the upper and lower bevors each secured at the right side by spring catches with push-button-releases, and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges 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, the helmet showing evidence at points of the delamination and cracking of its metal, and two small perforations at the crest of its comb) 26.0 cm; 10¼ in
Lot 426
A GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR TOURNEY USE, CIRCA 1600 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high, file-roped medial comb, and visor and bevor attached to it at each side by common pivots (the left missing) formed in each case of a square-headed bolt secured externally by a domed nut cut with a pair of opposing notches, the skull fitted at the base of the comb with a simply-decorated plume-tube of brass retaining traces of gilding, and pierced to either side of the nape with a pair of holes to accommodate now-missing lacing-eyelets, the deep visor formed with a pair of stepped vision-slits and pierced beneath them at each side of the face with eighteen small circular ventilation-holes arranged in three rows, the bevor pierced over each ear with nine small auditory holes in rosette-formation and fitted just to the front of those of the right with a forked visor-prop, the visor secured to the bevor, and the bevor secured to the skull at the right side in each case by spring-catches with domed push-button releases, and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges and pierced with three pairs of holes for the leathers that originally attached their gorget-plates (lightly patinated overall) 29.0 cm; 11½ in
Lot 427
A COMPOSITE GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, LATE 16TH CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low, file-roped medial comb, and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it at each side by common pivots with flat-heads (replaced), the forward-sloping visor formed with a stepped pair of vision-slits and fitted at its right with a short lifting-peg that also serves as the pull-release for a spring-catch (restored) that secures the visor to the upper bevor, the latter, of gently concave prow-shaped form, pierced at each side with eight small keyhole-shaped ventilation-holes arranged in three columns, the visor nestling within the upper bevor at the front and overlapping it at the rear, the upper and lower bevors each secured at the right side by a spring catch with push-button-release (restored), and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges and pierced with three pairs of holes, now plugged with blind rivets (one at the front missing; the helmet lightly pitted and patinated overall) 26.0 cm; 10¼ in
Lot 428
A COMPOSITE GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1550-60 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low, boldly-roped medial comb, and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it at each side by common, spirally-engraved pivots of brass (replaced), the forward-sloping visor (later notched at the centre of its upper edge) formed with a pair of prominently-stepped vision-slits and fitted at its right with a short lifting-peg (restored) terminating in a spirally-fluted domed head, the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced at each side with six circular and three quatrefoil ventilation-holes, the upper and lower bevors respectively secured at the right side by a spring-catch with push-button-release and a pierced stud with accompanying swivel-hook (in part restored), and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges to receive a pair of gorget-plates (belonging to the same series as one another but not matching), the lower edge of the second in each case formed with a boldly roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border also found at the main edges of the visor and upper bevor, and the surface of the helmet showing traces of an originally black-from-the-hammer (now cleaned bright) 29.3 cm; 11½ in
Lot 429
A CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE IN THE GERMAN STYLE OF THE LATE 16TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high medial comb, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it by common pivots with large domed heads of brass, the visor with stepped centrally-divided vision-slits fitted at its right with a short lifting-peg, the upper bevor with near-vertical profile pierced at each side with circular and cruciform ventilation-holes, the lower bevor fitted at the right cheek with a forked lifting-peg, the upper and lower bevors respectively fastened to the lower bevor and skull at their right sides by a spring-catch and a swivel-hook and pierced stud, and two articulated gorget- plates front and rear, the lowest lame at the front of rounded outline and the corresponding lame at the rear of squared outline, each formed at its main edge with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border (some patches of light rust) 32.0 cm; 12½ in
Lot 432
A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded skull formed in two pieces joined along the crest of a moderately high file-roped medial comb, flanged outwards at the nape to receive a missing neck-guard, fitted at its forward-sloping brow with a broad obtusely-pointed pivoted peak, at each side with a hinged cheek-piece flanged outwards at its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard and pieced at its centre with six small auditory holes in rosette-formation, and further fitted just above the hinge of the left one with a later plume-holder (slightly crushed), the helmet formed at its main edges with file-roped inward turns and decorated in low relief at the centre of each cheek-piece with a cinquefoil and elsewhere with bands and borders burnished bright against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 25.5 cm; 10 in
Lot 433
A GERMAN BURGONET WITH EMBOSSED DECORATION IN THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' FASHION, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with pointed one-piece skull boxed in four panels, rising to an acorn-finial, projecting forward to a broad obtusely-pointed integral peak (its ends and the areas immediately behind them cracked and in one case patched), and fitted at the nape with a short rounded one-piece neck-guard 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 helmet formed at its main edges with roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders and decorated in low relief on the skull, peak and neck-guard with four radiating bands that along with the recessed borders are burnished bright against a formerly black-from-the-hammer ground (now heavily cleaned) 24.8 cm; 9¾ in
Lot 434
A GERMAN BURGONET WITH EMBOSSED DECORATION IN THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' FASHION, LATE 16TH CENTURY with pointed one-piece skull boxed in four panels, rising to a prominent acorn-finial, projecting backwards and downwards at the nape to an obtusely-pointed integral neck-guard and fitted at its forward-sloping brow with a broad obtusely-pointed pivoted peak 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 four small auditory holes in tri-radiate formation, the helmet formed at its main edges with notched inward turns and decorated in low relief with borders and, on the skull and peak, four radiating bands of which those in the sagital line of the skull terminate in fleurs-de-lis that fill the interspaces between the bands, all burnished bright against a formerly black-from-the hammer ground (now heavily cleaned) 25.7 cm; 6¼ in
Lot 435
A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded skull formed in two pieces joined along the crest of a high file-roped medial comb, flanged outwards at the nape to receive an obtusely pointed neck-guard of one lame, fitted at its forward-sloping brow with a broad obtusely-pointed pivoted peak and at its left side (originally both sides) 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 helmet formed at its main edges with file-roped inward turns accompanied by narrow grooves and decorated in low relief at the centre of each cheek-piece with a circular panel and elsewhere with bands and borders burnished bright, along with each side of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint; the bright surfaces lightly patinated overall and the metal of the left end of the peak showing evidence of delamination) 30.0 cm; 11¾ in
Lot 436
A GERMAN 'BLACK AND WHITE' BURGONET, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb, fitted within its front and rear edges respectively with a short obtusely-pointed peak and neck-guard, and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece of symmetrical form, flanged outwards at both its front and rear ends to serve respectively as continuations of the peak and neck-guard, and pierced at its centre with six small auditory holes in rosette-formation, the helmet formed at its main edges with file-roped inward turns accompanied by narrow grooves and, to the inside of them, raised borders burnished bright, like the sides of the comb, against a blackened ground (refreshed with paint) 28.5 cm; 10¾ in
Lot 437
A GERMAN BURGONET WITH EMBOSSED DECORATION IN THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' FASHION, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with pointed one-piece skull boxed in four panels, rising to an acorn-finial, projecting forward to a broad obtusely-pointed integral peak and fitted at the nape with a short rounded one-piece neck-guard and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (the left associated and not matching) 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 helmet formed at its main edges with roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders and decorated in low relief on the skull, peak and neck-guard with four radiating bands that along with the recessed borders are burnished bright against a formerly black-from-the-hammer ground (now heavily cleaned) 27.0 cm; 10½ in
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