02-20-2008, 08:18 PM
This is the first cavalry sports helmet that I made, this was of course many years ago. I made the face mask in iron, however I never got round to covering it with silver. With all the others I have made, I would have them silvered this being the easy way out. The task of covering a face mask with a sheet of silver, would indeed be difficult job. When we look at this helmet it has a flower on the forhead with a ring, then there is a channel going completely over the bowl. The channel has a pin or spigot at the rear, which may have anchored a thong that carried a straight long feather as in eastern fashion. The helmet we are told belonged to a general of the Sampsigerami family who ruled at Emesa in Syria. There is the other interesting feature of the tear drops on the lower eye lids, these of course have a function where one can look down without moving ones head.
Brian Stobbs
