‡ A NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET FOR THE FOOT TOURNEY, CIRCA 1590-1600

‡ A NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET FOR THE FOOT TOURNEY, CIRCA 1590-1600 with a notably heavy rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial comb pierced to the front of its apex with one vertical and two horizontal holes (and showing there a small internally patched repair), visor, upper bevor and bevor attached to it by common dome-headed pivots (that on the right restored), the visor formed with a stepped and centrally-divided vision-slit (previously fitted with spring closure at the right now missing), the upper bevor pierced with a circular arrangement of nine ventilation holes and secured at its right for a locking-screw (missing, plugged at the top), and the skull and bevor fastened to one another at the right of the neck by a pierced hasp and turning-pin, and formed at their lower edges with internally hollowed rims intended to lock over and rotate on the upper edge of a collar, the skull fitted at the nape with a later iron plume-holder and pierced at the rear of the comb with further holes for securing a plume (the visor showing a number of sword cuts at each side, and the whole showing a light mottled patination overall), 27.0 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.