IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18440
accession number:	HEN.M.71-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Close helmet, for heavy cavalry use, composed of elements of a similar period and fashion, with later etched decoration. Formed of a one-piece skull with a peak and a bevor attached to it by common pivots, and a single gorget-plate front and rear.  The rounded skull rises to a low medial comb, decorated at its crest with roping.  The lower edge of the skull has been cut away at the brow.  A modern plume-holder is riveted at the nape of the skull.  The flat narrow peak projects forward to a central point.  Its upper edge extends a considerable way up the brow. The bevor which is weakly shaped to the chin, is cut with a broad, U-shaped face-opening.  The gorget-plates have convex lower edges.  The main edges of the helmet have file-roped inward turns.
The helmet is decorated with etched bands of trophies on a stippled and blackened ground.  The main bands are bordered to either side by narrow bands of guilloche, which are repeated at the main and secondary edges of the helmet.
title:	close helmet

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18440





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a one-piece skull with a peak and a bevor attached to it by common pivots, and a single gorget-plate front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped and etched decoration on a blackened and stippled ground
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1600
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1600
culture:	17th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 33

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 34

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 2.09

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 25.5