IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18400 accession number: HEN.M.66-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 April 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Close helmet, for use by a cuirassier, composed of elements of a similar period. Formed of a skull with a visor, an upper bevor and a bevor attached to it by common pivots, and a single gorget-plate front and rear. The skull is formed in two halves joined by a turn to the left along a moderately high medial comb. It is decorated with radiating flutes of V-shaped section. Attached by three rivets at the rear of the skull, just to the right of the comb, is a plume-holder of C-shaped section with a flanged outer edge. The pivots that secure the visor, the upper bevor and the bevor take the form of large round-headed rivets with circular internal washers. The skull is pierced with earlier pivot-holes just below the present pivots. The visor has a stepped, centrally-divided vision-slit. Its brow is decorated with flutes, forming a continuation of those that decorate the skull. Its inward flanged lower edge is pierced with a hole for a missing lifting-peg that was accommodated within a rectangular notch cut in the upper edge of the upper bevor. The prow-shaped upper bevor is pierced at the mouth with a pair of large, circular ventilation-holes, and at each side of the face with nine small circular ventilation-holes arranged in a rosette-formation and linked by radiating incised lines. The medially-ridged bevor has a broad, U-shaped face-opening. It is fitted at the right of the chin and the right of the neck with swivel-hooks that engage pierced studs respectively riveted at the lower edge of the upper bevor and the front edge of the skull. The right rear edge of the bevor is cut with an irregular notch just behind the swivel-hook at the neck. The front and rear gorget-plates, which are respectively riveted to the flanged lower edges of the bevor and skull, are each formed of a single plate embossed to simulate two lames. The lower edge of the front gorget-plate is obtusely-pointed, while that of the rear gorget-plate is rounded. The main edges of the helmet are decorated with plain inward turns accompanied by a recessed border. The secondary edges are decorated with single incised lines. title: close helmet 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/18400 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a skull with a visor, an upper bevor and a medially-ridged bevor attached to it by common pivots, and a single gorget-plate front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with fluted, pierced, embossed and incised decoration, with recessed borders, and painted black and turquoise over a rusted surface hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1630 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1630 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 29 dimension: Height units: cm value: 31.2 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 2.74 dimension: Width units: cm value: 28.8