11-01-2008, 05:41 AM
There is one helmet that is almost certainly a senior Officer's helmet, (though it has been classified as 'decorative' or from a statue by some - but statues were seldom exactly life size, and I don't know of any depicted in frescos etc with actual helmets.....) and that is the Autun Helmet.
Tarbicus/Jim has posted pictures of this highly decorated and elaborate Etrusco-Corinthian ( also called Apulian ) helmet elsewhere on RAT.... D
Tarbicus/Jim has posted pictures of this highly decorated and elaborate Etrusco-Corinthian ( also called Apulian ) helmet elsewhere on RAT.... D
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff