IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18282 accession number: HEN.M.31-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Comb morion, for infantry use, with embossed decoration in the 'black and white' fashion. Formed in two halves joined medially by a turn to the left along the crest of the comb, and by a riveted overlap to the left at the front and rear of the brim. Its crown curves down at each side and rises to a high medial comb that extends from just above the brow to just above the nape; and an integral brim that is turned down at each side and curves up to an acute point at the front and the rear. The edge of the brim has a plain inward turn. The base of the crown is encircled by modern externally-flush lining-rivets with brass rosette washers, of which one is missing and several now lack their washers. The lining-rivet and washer at the left of the nape retain a small, modern plume-holder formed of a tapering tube with a single integral arm. Each side of the crown is embossed in low relief with a large fleur-de-lis that, like the comb, is polished bright against a blackened ground in the 'black and white' fashion. title: comb morion NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18282 SUBJECTS ------------------- fleur-de-lis fleur-de-lis TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in two halves joined medially by a turn to the left along the crest of the comb, and by a riveted overlap to the left at the front and rear of the brim; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped and embossed decoration in a 'black and white' fashion hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1610 - 1610 creation date earliest: 1610 creation date latest: 1610 culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 35.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.14 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.8