Helmets

This extensive range of helmets from the 8th Lord Howard de Walden's collection includes several Morion style helmets with beautifully detailed etched foliate designs and Classical figures covering them. De Walden's collection of helmets also include Armet and Bascinet helmets that were protective coverings on the field of combat, with others produced for jousting tournaments and miltiary parades.

2 Fmedia2 F12563942 Funtitled

Ottoman Shishak

In the sixteenth century, Ottoman metalworkers developed a novel class of wares fashioned from gilde

2 Fmedia2 F12530732 Fri dc 0000632 1

Salade or Sallet Helmet

The Sallet or Salade was a combat helmet that was eventually replaced with the Bascinet during the m

2 Fmedia2 F12530062 Fri dc 0000419 1

North Italian Morion Helmet

The Morion helmet had a flat brim and a crest from front to back. The crest or comb on the top of th

2 Fmedia2 F12528822 Fri dc 0000436 1

Helmet

2 Fmedia2 F12528512 Fri dc 0000458 1

German Composite Close Helmet

2 Fmedia2 F12523642 Fri dc 0000455

Composite Close Helmet

2 Fmedia2 F12503172 Fri dc 0000407 1

Lobster-tailed Pot Helmet

The Lobster-tailed Pot Helmet is an example of an early modern combat helmet. The helmet was popular

2 Fmedia2 F12502952 Fri dc 0000450 1

Steel Skullcap

First introduced during the late 12th century the Steel Skullcap was the primary head protection fo

2 Fmedia2 F12500472 Fri dc 0000368 2

Sallet or Salade Helmet

The Sallet or Salade was a combat helmet that was eventually replaced with the Bascinet during the m

2 Fmedia2 F12499812 Fri dc 0000413 1

Badly Rusted Helmet with Visor

2 Fmedia2 F12499202 Fri dc 0000423 1

Replica Great Helm

Although helms such as this were used throughout Europe, and would have been used during the early y

2 Fmedia2 F12498502 Fri dc 0000409 1

Replica Comb Morion

This is believed to be an electrotype replica of a Morion style helmet.

2 Fmedia2 F12497132 Fri dc 0000471 1

Kulah Khud Helmet with Chainmail Gorget

2 Fmedia2 F12496792 Fri dc 0000411 1

Kulah Khud Helmet

2 Fmedia2 F12545042 Fri dc 0000358

Hungarian Helmet

2 Fmedia2 F12489482 Fri dc 0000412 1

Japanese Zunari Kabuto Helmet

The Zunari kabuto helmet is constructed from a simple design of four iron metal plates with a five-p

2 Fmedia2 F12489322 Fri dc 0000468 1

Fibreglass Helm

2 Fmedia2 F12488872 Fri dc 0000370 1

Greenwich Tournament Helmet

Greenwich armour is the plate armour in a distinctively English style produced by the Royal Almain A

2 Fmedia2 F12488612 Fri dc 0000366 1

Burgonet Helmet with Buffe

The Burgonet helmets design is complete with inherent benefits - offering better peripheral visio

2 Fmedia2 F12488402 Fri dc 0000410 1

French Sapeurs-pompiers Helmet

This French Sapeurs-pompiers helmet is designed in the style of the legendary Adrian helmet pattern

2 Fmedia2 F12488142 Fri dc 0000470 1

Brass Ottoman Empire Helmet

In the sixteenth century, Ottoman metalworkers fashioned arms and weaponry from gilded copper, 'tomb

2 Fmedia2 F12490312 Fri dc 0000416 1

Duke of Manchester Dragoon Guard's Helmet

2 Fmedia2 F12489112 Fri dc 0000415 1

7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards Helmet

At the front of the helmet is a magnificent helmet plate with a Queen's crown at top, her VR cypher

2 Fmedia2 F12480712 Fri dc 0000537 3

Burgonet Parade Helmet

A Burgonet helmet was an early modern combat helmet which can be characterized by having their large

2 Fmedia2 F12426472 Fbascinet a camail

Bascinet helmet with camails

This is an early example of a medieval 'bascinet' or 'basin' helmet. These would gradually evolve i

2 Fmedia2 F12424602 Fbascinet helmet

Bascinet Helmet

A medieval European open-faced military helmet that evolved from a type of iron or steel skullcap th

You must enable javascript to view this website