‡ A RARE WELL-MADE ZISCHÄGGE OF SIEGE WEIGHT, MID-17TH CENTURY, SOUTH GERMAN OR EAST EUROPEAN

‡ A RARE WELL-MADE ZISCHÄGGE OF SIEGE WEIGHT, MID-17TH CENTURY, SOUTH GERMAN OR EAST EUROPEAN with one-piece hemispherical crown fitted at its apex with a ring-finial on a large star-shaped washer, struck at the right back with the proof-mark of a bullet, fitted with an obtusely pointed peak bearing a later sliding nasal-bar secured by a locking-screw, neck-guard of five upward-lapping lames, the lowest drawn-out to an obtuse point, a pair of large scutiform pendent cheek-pieces, decorated throughout with plain turns accompanied by pairs of incised lines, fitted with domed lining-rivets and further rivets in a rosette-formation on the cheek-pieces and the tail, retaining much early black finish, with an early padded fabric lining (partly detached, some holes), 38.5 cm high Provenance The Counts von Giech, Schloss Thurnau, Franconia, sold Sotheby & Co., 19th November 1974, lot 211 (£440, with cuirass)