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A GERMAN LOBSTERTAIL HELMET

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 900.00 USD
A GERMAN LOBSTERTAIL HELMET
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
The ribbed bowl with ring finial, the visor and four-lamed neck guard with rolled edges. The nasal with flared upper terminal, retained by a large, heart-shaped bolt.With black-painted surface.Mid-17th century. Areas of rubbing, earguards lacking Acquired March 4, 1927 by John W. Higgins from Anderson Galleries, N.Y., from the collection of the Archduke Eugen's Armory at Fortress Hohenwerfen, Salzburg, Austria. . Deaccessioned from the John Woodman Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA.Overall height 32.5 cm. Condition III