Helmet combines academic and monetary values
ARMS & ARMOUR: Academic importance doesn’t always equate with financial interest, but in the case of the item pictured here, a 16th century close helmet, which went under the hammer at Sotheby’s Olympia (17.5/10% buyer’s premium) on December 7, there was a happy concurrence between the two.
As can perhaps just be seen, this piece was not in the best of condition: it was very pitted and als…