Cabasset late 16th c.
North Italian. One piece skull rising to a short flattened stalk at the top. Base of the skull with holes for lining rivets retaining 12 of these rivets (5 retaining brass caps) each with a brass washer embossed as a floret (retaining very small bits of a woven lining band and pieces of leather for the suspension of cheek plates) and a narrow downturned brim with an inward turned roll and narrow recess. I include copies of ads for Venton and Sons.
Measurements: 21.5 cm tall. Provenance: Stated to be from the old Papal armory, now the Museo Storico Vaticano in the Lateran Palace, Rome. Then Fenton and Son, London by 1919.
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