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Lot Nr.3352

A close helmet,

visor helmet, Austrian (Innsbruck) or Nuremberg circa 1500/1510. One-piece rounded skull with a flattened crown and decorated with eleven parallel flutes running from front to back, the central flute extending towards the forehead to form a central ridge, both sides of the skull with several pierced hole pairs for the helmet lining. Symmetrically designed one-piece pivoted visor and bevor, both with spring-loaded latch, neck-guard of three lames. The screws of the visor and some of the brass rivets added. Height 27 cm.
Rare, early visor hemlet, transitional type. Comparable helmets, such as the one housed in the collection of the Tower of London as well as helmets at Castel Coira (Churburg) are referred to in general as Innsbruck works, but the piece at hand might as well originate from Nuremberg. A helmet of almost identical type, probably from the same workshop, belongs to a suit of armour held in the Germanic Museum Nuremberg and seems to support this theory. Cf. G. Adolf Closs, Der Harnisch der Übergangszeit von der Gotik zur Renaissance (1495 - 1520), in ZHWK NF. Vol. 3 (12) Heft 7, June 1930, p. 148, fig. 5, a suit of armour from Nuremberg with an almost identical visor helmet. Also A. R. Dufty, European Armour in the Tower of London, London 1968, plate XCII, Innsbruck c. 1510. Auction Fischer-Lucerne, 27.11.1961, no. 126. Oswald Graf Trapp, The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg, London 1929, plate XLVIII, no. 73, 91. Mario Scalini, R. H. Wackernagel and Ian Eaves, Die Churburger Rüstkammer, Udine 1966, pp. 301 - 304.See Guy Francis Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms through seven Centuries, Vol.4, London 1921, P.90, Fig. 1167, "Helmet german... ".

Condition: II Limit: 18000 EURO
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Zuschlag 28000 EURO

 


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