IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18289 accession number: HEN.M.35-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Comb morion, for infantry use, with a 'black from the hammer' finish. Formed in one piece with a rounded crown that rises to a high, roped medial comb that extends from just above the brow to just above the nape, and a narrow integral brim that is turned down at each side and projects to a point at the front and the rear. The point at the front is cracked, and the point at the rear is pierced with a later wiring-hole. The edge of the brim has a file-roped inward turn. The base of the crown is encircled by twelve round-headed lining-rivets fitted with large iron rosette washers externally, and octagonal internal washers internally. Two at the right side retain fragments of leather, possibly for the attachment of the missing cheek-pieces at that side. The right side of the crown shows a dent towards the front end of the base of the comb. title: comb morion NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18289 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one piece with a rounded crown that rises to a high, roped medial comb that extends from just above the brow to just above the nape, and a narrow integral brim that is turned down at each side and projects to a point at the front and the rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped decoration on a blackened ground hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1560 culture: 16th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 34.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.9 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.08 dimension: Width units: cm value: 29.2