José-Manuel Benito wrote: |
If we leave aside the helmet from L.A. Schollard Collection (supposedly Hispanic, non demonstrated), there is no known any exemplar of medieval helmet, neither in España, nor in Portugal, before the fourteenth century.
Again: is sad, but there is no known instance of a helmet, either in Spain or Portugal, for over a thousand and three hundred years between the Roman Gallic A, from cape Moro Boti, at Cabrera island (first century) and the typical basinet from the Cathedral of Burgos (fourteenth century). Perhaps there are certain exceptions in some private collections, such as the named Scholard in Los Angeles, or the former collection of Axel Guttmann, but all of them are out of context and his location is not reliable. We'll always have the artistic representations. ;-) |
The Helmet certainly does exist and was verified authentic by many experts that had seen it in person as well as the entire meeting of Arms society members in Washington D.C. while it was exhibited there during the late 1960's. I have kept all the photographs I could of antiques and armor and am comprising a catalog of all his photographed pieces along with several other collections. Eventually(couple years) I'll have the catalog reviewed by Armour and Arms club members in New York to help with descriptions then published.