Antique Pith Helmet
Polo Or Pith Helmet By Gieves Of London
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Gieves Royal Navy Officer's Tropical Helmet, Pith Helmet, Solar Topee.
A good Gieves Ltd. 'Wolseley
Category
Early 20th Century British Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Canvas, Cork
African Chief’s gilt Crown and Sceptre in the form of a Pith helmet and pipe
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A splendid Bouelé Chief’s gilt-wood crown and sceptre in the form of a Pith helmet and pipe
Ivory
Category
Early 1900s Ivorian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Giltwood
$14,804
H 31.5 in W 9.85 in D 11.82 in
Rare, Large, 18th Century Angel Candlesticks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
featuring glass eyes, pith helmets and multi-colored wings.
Category
18th Century European Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Glass, Wood
Traditional Ashanti African Chief’s velvet and gilt-wood Leopard crown on stand
Located in Amsterdam, NL
flaunted with a traditional crown, clearly thought the ‘fashionable’ Pith helmet of a European colonialist
Category
Early 20th Century Ghanaian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Velvet, Giltwood
$6,500
H 15.75 in Dm 6.7 in
Ashanti African Chief’s ceremonial gold and gilt-metal crown and sash on stand
Located in Amsterdam, NL
chief, who before flaunted with a traditional crown, clearly thought the ‘fashionable’ Pith helmet of a
Category
Early 20th Century Ghanaian Art Nouveau Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Metallic Thread
$9,500
H 43.31 in W 15.75 in D 15.75 in
Fine Early 20th Century Bongo Ancestral Post
Located in London, GB
depicted wearing a colonial-era pith helmet.
The Bongo are one of several closely affiliated groups (Bongo
Category
Early 20th Century South Sudanese Tribal Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Wood
Antique 19th c Woodblock Print by Mizuno Toshikata - Sino Japan Battle_of_Son.
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
, wearing a white pith helmet and a black jacket, and Kinsen, wearing a flat-brimmed straw hat and a white
Category
19th Century Chinese Meiji Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Bronze
$1,260 Sale Price
20% Off
H 14.77 in W 27.96 in D 0.08 in
Pair of hunting oil painting scenes with wild boar
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
of the figures wear military uniforms with Wolseley pattern pith helmets. The distinctive sun helmets
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Oil, Panel
$7,852
H 17 in W 20 in D 2.75 in
Antique English Victorian Ode-to-Empire Pith Helmet Cigar Lighter, 1900
By Samuel Walton Smith & Co.
Located in New York, NY
form of pith helmet; spike flue between tools with Classical bust handles. An ode to empire that evokes
Category
Early 1900s British Victorian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,000
H 5 in W 4 in D 3.38 in
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Workers Protective Helmet, German Automotive Factory
Located in Peekskill, NY
factory. This Pith helmet style head piece and shroud has a well worn patina that really shows the years
Category
Early 20th Century German Industrial Antique Pith Helmet
Asian Folding Table with Brass Tray and Carved Wood, circa 1890
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
pith helmet and his clothes, surely an officer), dragon, bats, flowers and symbols.
Chinoiserie
Category
1890s Asian Chinese Export Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Brass
Original Antique Recruitment Poster See The World by Joining the Army Gibraltar
By Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
soldiers standing on the deck of a ship wearing pith helmets and looking towards a warship in front of the
Category
1910s British Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Paper
H 30.12 in W 20.08 in D 0.04 in
Pith Helmet in the Original Tole Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
English pith helmet and painted copper box with all the historical romance you could wish for
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Metal
1930s German Factory Worker Suede Protective Head Gear
Located in Peekskill, NY
window with aluminum frame. The top is modeled after Pith Helmet with the whole device covered in suede
Category
Early 20th Century German Industrial Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Leather
Rare 19th century Pith or Tropical Officers Helmet
Located in Haarlem, NL
This cork and canvas officer helmet is a tropical sunhelmet with an imperial cockade on the front
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Leather, Canvas, Cork
Auguste Moreau “Charmeur” Patinated Metal Sculpture Lamp
By Auguste Moreau
Located in Guaynabo, PR
between his feet. The lamp has a Tiffany stained glass like shade shaped as a pith or sun helmet. This
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Metal
Folk Art Colonial Carving
Located in Hudson, NY
Wood carving of an colonial African wearing a pith helmet
Category
Early 20th Century African Folk Art Antique Pith Helmet
British Colonial Mercury Glass Lamp
Located in Charlottesville, VA
large woven Indian snake basket. Complete with matching pith helmet finial. New black paper, silver
Category
Early 20th Century English British Colonial Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Glass
Original Antique Recruitment Poster See The World By Joining The Army Gibraltar
By Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
three soldiers standing on the deck of a ship wearing pith helmets and looking towards a warship in
Category
1910s Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Paper
Oil on Canvas by Frederic Remington titled "The Caravan"
By Frederic Remington
Located in New Orleans, LA
, wearing his pith helmet with a lady in a hat and the second cart in the the forefront, has an African
Category
19th Century American Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Canvas
Original Pith Helmet from the Belgian Congo, circa 1940
Located in Antwerp, BE
Wolseley model pith helmet used in the Belgian Congo in the 1940s. The Wolseley model was adopted
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Antique Pith Helmet
Two Original Pith Helmets from the Belgian Congo, circa 1940
Located in Antwerp, BE
These two Wolseley model pith helmets were used in the Belgian Congo in the 1940s. The Wolseley
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Antique Pith Helmet
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Rare Victorian Firescreen with Taxidermy Hummingbirds by Henry Ward
By Henry Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
England, third quarter of the 19th century
On two scrolling foliate feet with casters, above which a rectangular two-side glazed frame, with on top a two-sided shield with initial...
Category
Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Other
$230,952 Sale Price
33% Off
H 51.19 in W 55.12 in D 201.58 in
Mogens Koch for Rud Radmussen Modular Library in Mahogany
By Mogens Koch, Rud Rasmussen
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Mogens Koch for Rud Rasmussen, modular book case or library, mahogany, Denmark, design 1928
Intriguing and substantial modular library by Danish designer Mogens Koch. This piece is ...
Category
1920s Danish Scandinavian Modern Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Mahogany
Tapestry Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period 1738 at the Gobelins
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Madrid, ES
Tapestry from the Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period , made in 1738 at the Gobelins
One panel from a series of Gobelins tapestries depicting the Hi...
Category
Early 18th Century French Baroque Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Wool, Silk
$100,456
W 80.71 in L 124.02 in
Giant Victorian Taxidermy Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare giant Victorian taxidermy Loggerhead sea turtle
England, 19th century
The extremely large animal with a nice patina, with some parts professionally restored and...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Animal Skin, Epoxy Resin, Paint
16th-Century Indo-Portuguese Colonial Mother-of-pearl Gujarat Casket
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An exceptional Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts
India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon
...
Category
16th Century Indian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Silver
$273,917
H 6.3 in W 9.69 in D 6.34 in
Pair of Victorian Cabinets with Taxidermy Quetzal by Henry Ward
By Henry Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of extremely rare Victorian display cabinets with taxidermy resplendent quetzal (PHAROMACHRUS MOCINNO), cotinga and hummingbirds, attributed to Henry Ward (1812-1878)
Engla...
Category
Early 19th Century English High Victorian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Other
$70,265 / set
H 32.68 in W 24.02 in D 7.09 in
Rare Gold Ashanti Royal Bracelet from Jacaranda Tribal
Located in New York, NY
This magnificent gold bracelet was made for Ashanti royalty.
The Ashanti Kingdom's wealth was significantly based on gold-mining and trading in gold, as well as agriculture. The ki...
Category
Early 20th Century Ghanaian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Gold
A fine pair of Japanese export lacquer secretaires owned by Sir Stamford Raffles
Located in Amsterdam, NL
'The Stamford Raffles Secretaires.'
A pair of Japanese Kyoto-Nagasaki style export lacquer secretaires by ‘Lakwerker Sasaya’ each with the name ‘Olivia’
Kyoto, Edo period, circa 18...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Gold, Brass
$817,216 / set
H 69.69 in W 39.97 in D 18.9 in
Ancient Egyptian Monumental Temple Sphinxes
Located in London, GB
A pair of monumental limestone sphinxes of Pharaoh Nectanebo I, from the processional avenue of the Serapeum of Memphis, 30th Dynasty, circa 379 - 360 BC.
The sphinxes of the Serape...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Egyptian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Limestone
Knole Settee, Cowdray Park, English, Lengyon & Co, olive velvet, tapestry
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
- EXCEPTIONALLY, RARE, MUSEUM QUALITY PIECE, THE COWDRAY PARK KNOLE SETTEE, INVENTORY NUMBER D2029
- Supplied by Lengyon & Co, the pre-eminent maker, to Viscount Cowdray, Cowdray Pa...
Category
Early 20th Century English Charles II Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Tapestry, Velvet
$34,140
H 43.71 in W 69.3 in D 27.17 in
A large taxidermy Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
The Netherlands, 21st century, died of natural cause in a European zoo
H. 141 cm
Endemic to North-east Australia and Papua-Guinea, the Cassowary is regarded as the most dangerous b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Animal Skin
A pair of Spanish-colonial Viceregal mother-of-pearl inlaid bureau-cabinets
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Viceroyalty of Peru, Lima, 18th century, circa 1720-1760
Each with a moulded giltwood cornice and on a foliate carved giltwood base, possibly later and English. The cabinets, with s...
Category
18th Century Peruvian Spanish Colonial Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Teak
$1,110,348
H 83.86 in W 45.28 in D 83.86 in
18th Century, Gilded, Bishop's Crest
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Relief carved, gessoed and 22-karat gold gilded, Italian bishop's crest featuring three bees amidst foliate scrolls, drapery swags, and tassles.
Category
1770s Italian Antique Pith Helmet
Materials
Gesso, Wood
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Questions About Antique Pith Helmet
- What is a pith helmet?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022A pith helmet, also known as a safari helmet or sun helmet, is a cloth-covered helmet made out of cork. They are recognizable for their rounded design, which allows air to circulate and cool the wearer’s head. Shop a collection of pith helmets from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
- Are pith helmets bulletproof?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022No, sadly pith helmets are not bulletproof. Its main purpose was to keep the sun and rain off the wearer’s head, and because of its design, kept the wearer cool in the heat. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of pith helmets from some of the top sellers around the world.
- Are pith helmets cool?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Whether or not pith helmets are cool is largely a matter of personal opinion. However, a major selling point of the pith helmet is that it promotes airflow to help regulate body temperature. You'll find a collection of vintage and antique helmets on 1stDibs.
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