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Jens Nordlunde · 2nd May 2005, 01:17 PM

All right Radu, I don’t know!

I have however a few comments to the helmet. I don’t think it looked like that from the start, but if you remove the top ‘hat’, and the decorations (are they Niello?) you will see what the original helmet looked like, and I think it is old, but I wont try to guess how old. Later some creative person found the helmet too good to be melted down, so he modernized it, and I think I can agree that this could have been in late 18th or in 19th century.

2nd May 2005, 01:17 PM	#46
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	All right Radu, I don’t know! I have however a few comments to the helmet. I don’t think it looked like that from the start, but if you remove the top ‘hat’, and the decorations (are they Niello?) you will see what the original helmet looked like, and I think it is old, but I wont try to guess how old. Later some creative person found the helmet too good to be melted down, so he modernized it, and I think I can agree that this could have been in late 18th or in 19th century.