Production: Unknown (Possibly)
Zischägge, for light cavalry use. Formed of a skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw, a broad neck-defence of three upward-overlapping lames and a pair of narrow pendant cheek-pieces each of three lames. The one-piece skull is boxed in six vertical panels, decorated around its base with a broad recessed border and fitted at its apex with a pierced finial retaining a large, circular washer. The main edges of the peak and the neck-defence have plain inward turns, except at their centres where their acute points have been truncated and decorated with large V-shaped nicks. The separate peak is attached to the brow of the skull by round-headed rivets. The peak is crudely pierced at its point with a later suspension-hole. The centre of the last lame of the neck-defence is decorated with a circular pattern of round-headed rivets. The cheek-pieces and the nasal-bar are modern restorations. The neck-defence is fitted with a leather lining.
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 30.2 cm
Height: 28.5 cm
Weight: 1.9 kg
Width: 37.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1650
The helmet is bright with a medium patination overall.
Lining
composed of
leather
( neck-defence)
Border
Decoration
Parts
Hammered
: Formed of a skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw, a broad neck-defence of three upward-overlapping lames and a pair of narrow pendant cheek-pieces each of three lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, with a recessed border and decorated with V-shaped nicks
Patinating
Formed
Accession number: HEN.M.97-1933
Primary reference Number: 18547
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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