Beschreibung:

A NORTH ITALIAN COMB MORION, CIRCA 1550-60 with rounded one-piece crown rising to a high file-roped medial comb decorated to either side of its crest with an incised line, and a very slightly 'swept' integral brim projecting to an obtuse point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a file-roped inward turn accompanied to the inside by a narrow groove, the base of the crown fitted at the nape with a pair of rivets to attach a missing plume-holder and encircled by fourteen lining-rivets of which nine retain their original brass rosette-washers (the whole heavily cleaned, with brazed repairs at the front and rear of its comb and the front end of the brim, and a later suspension-hole in the right of the brim) 21.5 cm; 8½ in The helmet is a rare example of an early form of morion.