Lot 1408 - A194 Arms & Armour Col. Sigrist - Thursday, 24. September 2020, 05.00 PM
BURGONET HELMET
German, end of the 16th century.
Blank iron. One-part skull with ribbed peak, transitioning into the eye guard. Nuremberg mark, indistinct, Neck guard, riveted. Cheekpieces, with five punctiform perforations each. Eye and neck guards as well as cheekpieces with ribbed edges.
H 27.1 cm. C: 1-2.
Provenance:
- Weapons Auction Fischer-Lucerne, 11./14.9.1996, No. 346.
- Collection M. Sigrist, Lucerne.
Attractive burgonet of the type produced mainly in Nuremberg. Cf. Gessler, Waffensammlung Schweiz. Landesmuseum, 1928, plate 24.
CHF 1 500 / 1 800 | (€ 1 550 / 1 860)
Sold for CHF 2 250 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.