Of browned steel, with rounded one-piece skull with low comb bordered by incised triple lines, and encircled around the back by domed brass-capped lining rivets (plume-holder missing), fall with turned and roped peak, face-guard cut-out for vision and pierced with a series of vertical rectangular bars, the former each with turned and roped edge, bevor shaped to the chin, secured by replacement leather straps and buckle, and pivoted at the same points as the fall and face-guard, single gorget plate front and rear (the latter expertly replaced), the main edges turned and roped, and followed by domed brass-capped lining rivets including a circular arrangement on the front plate

Provenance

from the R.J. Wigington collection

For helmets with related face-guards see Arthur Richard Dufty & W. Reid, European Armour In The Tower Of London, 1968, pl. CVII (top right); and Lionello Boccia, Il Museo Stibbert a Firenze, volume terzo: l'Armeria europa, 1975, p. 68, pl. 54, no. 57