A fine North Italian etched Burgonet circa 1560-80. With tall skull formed in one piece, drawn up to a roped high comb and extending to a long sharply pointed peak and pointed neck-guard, hinged cheek-pieces (one replaced, almost certainly within the working life of the helmet), recessed borders with turned roped edges, decorated throughout with etched panels of martial trophies, including varieties of small monsters, grotesques, animals and birds on a contrasting blackened stippled ground, the skull etched with large p 16th century, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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Size: 3589px × 5339px
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Photo credit: © INTERFOTO / History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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