A blow-marked Savoyard helmet

dating: 1600 - 1620 provenance: Italy, Heavy skull, composed of two pieces, with a small roped comb, a rectangular hole in the center, smooth sides, number '70' in the right part, four ventilation holes near the cheek-piece on both sides. Chanfrin with slightly sharpened brim and with raised and roped border, riveted at the mask-shaped visor, with finely prominent nose, eye-slots and mouth with raised borders and oblique pitting, central part with ventilation holes so as the nose. Beaver composed of two hinged pieces, carved together with a neck-guard plate. Hook for the visor and beaver. Neck-guard and nape-guard plate slightly sloping, with raised and roped border, nape-guard plate hammered together with two skull hemispheres. A row of brass rivets. Small remains of original leather strings inside. Small restore on the nape-guard plate. Provenance: Charles Buttin Collection, see 'Catalogue de la Collection D'Armes Anciennes de Charles Buttin', Rumilly, 1933, nr. 2, pages 13/14 and illustration plate 11. (A collection catalogue will be given together with the helmet).Baron Hans de Schulthess (1885-1951), Schloss Au, near Zurich, Switzerland.Literature:Claude Blair, European Armour, London, 1958, p. 150 José-A. Godoy, ‘Les Armets Savoyards du Musée d’Arte et d’Histoire de Genéve’, Geneva, N. S. Vol. L, 2002, pp.11-97. height 32 cm.