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Rare and Fine Antique Arms and Armour, Orders & Militaria

Thursday 11 December 2025 e Friday 12 December 2025, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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A lobster-tailed helmet, 17th/18th Century

Estimate

€ 800 - 1.200

Sold

€ 1.625

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Austria
height 24 cm.
Made of blackened iron; one-piece skull with six raised ribs, fitted at the top with a ring on a circular base. Pointed peak with a slot for a sliding nosepiece, adjustable by a wing-nut; the tip with traces of a mark. Four-plate Lobster-tail nape-guard; articulated cheekpieces with rosette-pattern air holes. Original leather strings, partly restored. Used by Austrian heavy cavalry during the Turkish Wars (1788–1789).

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