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A RARE EASTERN EUROPEAN SZYSZAK HELMET

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:600.00 USD Estimated At:1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD
A RARE EASTERN EUROPEAN SZYSZAK HELMET
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 650 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 a
Hungarian or Polish work, an earlier form than typically encountered. The domed, handforged two-piece bowl with applied, riveted peak with adjustable nasal with flared and profiled terminals, and retained by a set-screw. The neckguard of three articulated lames with roped lower edge, riveted to the bowl. The rare, two-lame earpieces are wrought with semicircularoculars and roped edges throughout. Early 17th century. Areas of pitting. Overall height 38 cm.
Condition II