with rounded one-piece skull formed with a low slender medial comb (pierced at its centre to receive a later crest), associated 'sparrow’s beak' visor pierced with a centrally-divided vision-slit and at its right with six ventilation-holes arranged in two groups, associated bevor secured at the right by a spring-catch, and two associated neck-lames (bearing a light mottled patina overall), 26.0 cm high

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.