‡ A VERY RARE KETTLE HAT OF NOTABLE WEIGHT, THIRD... Lot n° 174

‡ A VERY RARE KETTLE HAT OF NOTABLE WEIGHT, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 15TH CENTURY, WESTERN EUROPEAN with domed one-piece skull rising to a low medial ridge, pierced around its base with four holes for attachment of a lining, broad down-turned brim (pitted throughout, extensive losses and patches, much of the skull and the majority of the brim reinforced with later riveted patch on the inside), 23.0 cm high Provenance Sir Edward Barry, Ockwell’s Manor, Bray, Berkshire (Mann cat. no. 73) Sotheby’s, 7th July 1965, lot 95 (£40 to C. Wandby) Peter Dale, sold 6th May 1971 Howard M. Curtis (no. 245) Literature Howard M. Curtis, ‘2500 Years of European Helmets 800 B.C. - 1700 A.D.’, North Hollywood, 1978, pp. 126-127