Wow,thisis pretty cool right here! I love these and seldom get to see them. These burgeonettes with nasal bar were more often seen on the continent ( Graz has a number of them ). They don't seem to have been made in as large a numbers as regular burgeonettes or other helmet types like zischagges so there aren't as many surviving examples.
As near as I can tell from the pictures constuctionally there seems no reason to believe these to be other than what they appear, late 16/17th century munnitions burgeonette and front plate of a gorget. The helmet, as was typical for mass produced munnitions helmets of the period is made in two halves, one slightly longer along the comb edge than the other, the longer being rolled and crimped over the shorter, and laped over and riveted at either end of the comb at the edges of the skull. The rough internal rolled edges of the base plates of the bureonette and gorget are pretty common for munnitions work of this period, cut washers ect. What appears to be a nice detail on the helmet is the way that the cheek plates have a little extra detail hammering around the hinge ( which is outside the helmet on the bowl, but inside the cheek plates ) to make it sit move closely to the bowl of the helmet ( without it the cheek plates would " stand off " the bowl at this point ). I cannot make out from these pics but do the rivets on the base plate of the gorget have washers on the backside with a slight space that may indicate that they secured a liner in place?
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