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Ricky Travis




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PostPosted: Mon 01 Sep, 2014 6:23 am    Post subject: Identification         Reply with quote

Hi I'm in the process of buying a hotel in the Highlands and this helmet is on one of the walls, if anyone can give me any information I would be most grateful. For all I know it could just be a reproduction !

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Luka Borscak




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PostPosted: Mon 01 Sep, 2014 6:49 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

It is just a reproduction, of a sugarloaf greathelm from the 14th century.
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Edward Lee




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PostPosted: Mon 01 Sep, 2014 6:51 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

That's a great helm I'm sure of It, and I never seen a reproduction like this before. It must be old IMO.
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Lin Robinson




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PostPosted: Mon 01 Sep, 2014 7:27 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Edward Lee wrote:
That's a great helm I'm sure of It, and I never seen a reproduction like this before. It must be old IMO.


It MAY be Victorian but I suspect that is about as old as it can be.

Lin Robinson

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Robert MacPherson
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PostPosted: Mon 01 Sep, 2014 8:26 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

The object in the original post is without a doubt modern.

Here is a Google image search for sugarloaf helmet. https://www.google.com/search?q=sugarloaf+helmet&client=firefox-a&hs=rGV&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=oY8EVOOdBYeQgwTvyYLIDw&ved=0CCIQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=777

To the best of my knowledge, here are no known survivors of this sort of helm.

Mac

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Jeffrey Hildebrandt
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PostPosted: Mon 01 Sep, 2014 8:43 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I uploaded the original image into Google's image search and added the description "sugarloaf helm." This is what I got - bingo:



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Robert MacPherson
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PostPosted: Mon 01 Sep, 2014 9:14 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Nicely done, Jeffrey.


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