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English: Traced from photo[1] of item sold 12 July 2000 at Christies, South Kensington, London, Sale 8829, Antique Arms and Armour, lot 89, described in catalogue as:
An English Close-Helmet, Late 16th Century, Of bright steel, with heavy well-formed one-piece skull rising to a prominent roped comb (patched hole, probably from a funerary crest-spike) with conical iron plume-holder at the base with a pierced lug above, the latter presumably for securing the plume, visor with centrally divided one-piece stepped sight, prow-shaped upper-bevor with concave profile and circular breaths on the right, lower-bevor shaped to the chin, extra inner visor (a 17th Century working addition) of five flat bars each with embossed central rib, made from a single plate, all pivoted at the same points on the skull, the visor and bevors secured to each other by spring catches on the right, the inner visor secured to the lower-bevor by a spring catch on the left, and two gorget-plates at the front and rear respectively (both bottom plates later replacements), the neck and borders engraved with pairs of lines, the top of the upper-bevor and the bottom edge of the gorget-plates also with recessed lightly roped borders, the rivets with brass heads throughout (all probably later, the surface rust pitted throughout, minor old repairs, visor support missing) 12in. (30.4cm.) high
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