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Raf · 3rd November 2015, 08:33 PM

I have one similar to Cerjaks but put together in a more naive way. It was described by Bonham's as a reproduction of a funery helmet in a seventeenth century style . Which seemed a little odd since it also incorporates bits of a genuine helmet and there is nothing about it that suggests it isn't seventeenth century. On a recent visit to Cotehele in Cornwall, I found a virtually identical helmet which was described as an undertakers funery helmet which seemed to me to make sense. By the beginning of the seventeenth century the funery achievement had moved down market and the implication is that undertakers provided or perhaps hired out rather crudely made helmets as part of the funery trappings , but not necessarily for permanent display in a church.
Image 1 is the Cotehele helmet and 2 and 3 our version.

3rd November 2015, 08:33 PM	#8
Raf Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 238	I have one similar to Cerjaks but put together in a more naive way. It was described by Bonham's as a reproduction of a funery helmet in a seventeenth century style . Which seemed a little odd since it also incorporates bits of a genuine helmet and there is nothing about it that suggests it isn't seventeenth century. On a recent visit to Cotehele in Cornwall, I found a virtually identical helmet which was described as an undertakers funery helmet which seemed to me to make sense. By the beginning of the seventeenth century the funery achievement had moved down market and the implication is that undertakers provided or perhaps hired out rather crudely made helmets as part of the funery trappings , but not necessarily for permanent display in a church. Image 1 is the Cotehele helmet and 2 and 3 our version. Attached Images Last edited by Raf; 4th November 2015 at 03:38 PM.