We have always considered and collected these commercial masks and helmets as industries tribal art. Examples can be elegant in their simplicity or bazaar and complex. They are always unique, suprising and filled with personality.
Early Anatomical Half Head Model
This is the quality and style of item I like to add to my own collection. I do have a matching example in my collection already so this one is for sale. It is unsigned buy attributed to Wilh. Schluter / Naturwissenschaftliches / Halle a Saale. The head is Gesso, papier mâché and plaster. The scale is life-size. It stands on a turned wood and brass weighted base. It's difficult to tell but there may have been some restoration on this early model... $2600
