19th century AD or earlier. An iron helmet with hexagonal-section conical skull, articulating lateral and rear flaps, peak to the brow; the skull with bulb finial, openwork frontal panel and circumferential band of openwork calligraphic text and similar to the lateral and rear flaps; holder for the drop-nasal to the brow above a band of reserved calligraphic text. 1.6 kg, 42cm (16 1/2"). Property of a Hampstead gentleman; from his family collection formed since the 1970s.