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eftihis
11th July 2006, 12:06 AM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&item=230004311952&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
Any ideas?
athena
13th July 2006, 05:06 AM
The leather looks good, while the crafts is a bit rough.
Here is a leather hemlet I picked up.
athena
13th July 2006, 05:17 AM
inside
Rather
13th July 2006, 08:53 AM
@eftihis: The helmet on ebay is a kind of Cabasset helmet, very popular dissign in Europe during mid of 15th century till 16th century, used by solders and guards. Unusual is the material, they were mainly iron (or only the iron ones survived) Extremely rare item.
@athena: Very nice piece, but is it realy a helmet, or rather a cask cover of some kind?
Tim Simmons
13th July 2006, 11:41 AM
I do not think this is any older than the late 19th century, and is one of these. Still a nice thing to have, if a little heavy on the hongo.
dennee
13th July 2006, 07:28 PM
I would think that Tim is the closest here.
Athena's helmet looks nice. I would guess it's Yi?
Tim Simmons
13th July 2006, 07:52 PM
I have been looking in another book to see if I could find a similar black leather example. Plenty of basket ware examples and pangolin/armadillo skin examples. That does not mean black leather was not used. If you look very hard you can see that the Naga warriors helmet also has the central stitched seam. It certainly has absolutely nothing to do with Cromwells sappers :D :D :D :D :D :D :D.
athena
14th July 2006, 03:20 AM
Athena's helmet looks nice. I would guess it's Yi?
Yes, it's Yi. It looks you are quite familiar with that. :D
athena
14th July 2006, 03:23 AM
@athena: Very nice piece, but is it realy a helmet, or rather a cask cover of some kind?
It's really a helmet.
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