Searching for pictures of early Gladiator helmets

[Caratacus]

I visited the Higgins museum in 2005 and saw and photographed the gladiator helmet then, but I don't think that my pictures would add anything to the ones you already have (yours are better than mine, anyway). I did write subsequently to the museum and ask if they had any provenance for the item and the reply I had back said that it was 'collected' by Mr. Higgins in the 1930s but that nothing further was known about it. So, I don't think that this could be one of those found in the gladiator barrack at Pompeii.

Mike Tomas
(Caratacus)