Best Photos of the Day

LONDON.- A ‘selfie’ of European and Japanese helmets dating from 16th – 19th centuries, from the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, Massachusetts, USA, to be auctioned in London on 7 May at Thomas Del Mar Ltd (in Association with Sotheby’s). www.thomasdelmar.com

LONDON.- Hold My Hand: the 19th century boy’s armour, pictured, belonged to the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, inspiration to Orson Welles’s film Citizen Cane. From the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection to be sold at Thomas Del Mar Ltd (In Association with Sotheby’s), 7th May. Estimates for these armours start at £5,000 - £20,000.

LONDON.- A steel target with embossed decoration, 19th century, after an Italian original of the mid-16th century made for the Emperor Charles V. From John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, to be sold at Thomas Del Mar Ltd (in Association with Sotheby’s). Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

LONDON.- A stained glass panel of St Adrian of Nicomedia, probably Flemish or German, early 16th century and later. 186.5 x 59 cm. See the Detroit Institute of Art, Accession No. 58.111, for what appears to be a companion window to this, depicting St. Wencelas. From John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, to be sold at Thomas Del Mar Ltd (in Association with Sotheby’s) on 7th May. Estimate: £1000-2000

LONDON.- Interior of the Great Hall, Higgins Armory Museum, 1951. Image courtesy of the Higgins Armory Museum.

LONDON.- This photograph, dated 1907, shows John Woodman Higgins and his wife, Clara, in Venice, where the story to Higgins’s armour collecting begins. He wrote to well-known armour collector Clarence Mackay in 1927… ‘I have been interested in this subject since schooldays and started a collection by ordering a replica made of a suit of armor by an Italian metal worker I found on a visit to Venice 20 years ago’. Image courtesy of the Higgins Armory Museum.

LONDON.- Interior of the Worcester Pressed Steel Company. It was founded in 1905 by John Woodman Higgins and his father Milton Prince Higgins. Image courtesy of the Higgins Armory Museum.

LONDON.- A polychrome and giltwood figure of St. Florian probably Tyrol, second half 15th century. The armoured crowned and cloaked figure pouring a bucket of water on a burning tower at his side lance missing, 72 cm; 28 ¼ in high. Estimate: £1,500-£2,500. From the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, to be auctioned in London on 7th May at Thomas Del Mar Ltd (in Association with Sotheby’s).

LONDON.- A selection of armour from the 16th – 19th centuries. Estimates start at £5,000 - £30,000. From the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, to be auctioned in London on 7 May at Thomas Del Mar Ltd (In Association with Sotheby’s).

LONDON.- Portrait of Antonio Treus of Udine. North Italian School, Second half of the 16th century. Inscribed in Latin. Oil on canvas in a carved and painted Sansovino frame, 143.5cm x 95.5cm; 56 1/2in x 37 1/2in. Estimate: £4,000-£6,000. From the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection to be sold at Thomas Del Mar Ltd (In Association with Sotheby’s), 7th May.