IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18440 accession number: HEN.M.71-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Close helmet, for heavy cavalry use, composed of elements of a similar period and fashion, with later etched decoration. Formed of a one-piece skull with a peak and a bevor attached to it by common pivots, and a single gorget-plate front and rear. The rounded skull rises to a low medial comb, decorated at its crest with roping. The lower edge of the skull has been cut away at the brow. A modern plume-holder is riveted at the nape of the skull. The flat narrow peak projects forward to a central point. Its upper edge extends a considerable way up the brow. The bevor which is weakly shaped to the chin, is cut with a broad, U-shaped face-opening. The gorget-plates have convex lower edges. The main edges of the helmet have file-roped inward turns. The helmet is decorated with etched bands of trophies on a stippled and blackened ground. The main bands are bordered to either side by narrow bands of guilloche, which are repeated at the main and secondary edges of the helmet. title: close helmet 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/18440 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a one-piece skull with a peak and a bevor attached to it by common pivots, and a single gorget-plate front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped and etched decoration on a blackened and stippled ground hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 33 dimension: Height units: cm value: 34 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 2.09 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.5