Roman silvered face mask Teutoburg Forest Battle Coolus G Helmet Varus

Now Reduced 10% from $589 to $530.10 For sale here is my modern man size Roman silvered face mask from the famous Teutoburg Forest Battlefield find copy and a Roman solid brass Coolus 'G' Helmet.  I have associated it's sale with my Coolus 'G' helmet as it was current at the time of the battle and it is one of my favorite looking helmets.  I am selling the two together as is.  Also please note, t his Coolus 'G' helmet is no longer available in the USA and I have the last one. If you are interested in taking the helmet up a few notches, I can do some of the work for you.  Regularly these two items priced separately are $648 but if you buy them in this lot together, you save $59.  For Roman standard bearers ( Signifers / Aquilifers ), both wolf skins and bear skins are in stock and available. #1:  A small hole will need to be perfectly measured to make the right line up between the helmet and mask and then drilled out at the front of the helmet in order for the mask to hang from it.  $39. #2:  I can make and attach two small leather belt (s) with buckles on both the lower back corners of each end of the mask so you can secure it to your head for $39. #3:  I can line the inside of the mask with leather for $39. #4:  The helmet can be fitted with a cloth helmet liner to make it more comfortable for you to wear in any number of ways for $49. I either use either cloth quilted padding for comfort or sheep skin, leather, wool felt or even foam.  Foam is the best to use to make a helmet fit all around your head better but it is a modern material if you have issues with that.  Sheep skin is the next best to use as it has some play and give and is really comfortable.  Wool felt is good but it is not soft or real comfortable.   Leather is good as well but it is not comfortable. #5:  The mask has a hook to fit the upper main helmet brow which was based on archeological evidence from studies of the original ancient mask and the drilled out holes on the ancient mask.  This is also the easiest way to both hook the mask onto the helmet and unhook the mask from the helmet which is listed above as #1:,  However the most secure method to attach the mask to the helmet is for me to build a hinge and then rework the helmet and mask to better secure the hinge to it.  This method will be more of a permanent option as I will need to use two rivets to secure the upper part of the hinge to the helmet and then use two more rivets to secure the boom part of the hinge to the mask.  There are also two ways to secure this hinge to the helmet.  To do this extra work, I will first need to build a brass hinge, second I will have to cut a small channel in the brow of the helmet for the hinge to slip into and make it even with the rest of the helmets border.  Next, I will need to drill and file two holes in the mask and drill two holes (four in total) in the helmet.  Then I will have to drill out and file four additional holes on the hinge itself to match up with the holes I drilled on both the mask and helmet.   Lastly, I will need to use four brass rivets and hammer them through all the holes to secure the hinge both to the mask and to the helmet.   To do this job will cost $39. Modern life size Roman silvered face mask from the famous Teutoburg Forest battle in modern day Kalkriese, Germany.  A famous battle between the Roman Governor Varus against the German Chieftain Arminius, later named by the Germans to Hermann in the 16th to 17th centuries.  The mask herself is remade as it would have looked in 9 AD before the Germanic tribesman would have stripped the silver skin off which was over laid onto the iron skin.  This mask was most likely worn by either a Roman standard bearer or could have belonged to one of the members of the Roman cavalry belonging to the hippika gymnasia or elite Roman cavalry known to display fighting techniques of the Roman cavalry equivalent to our modern day Blue Angels or Air Force Thunderbirds fighter jet pilots who preform for the public.  This mask is silvered brass and is solid metal and looks like it is of solid silver but it will not tarnish.  The price is marked down to $365 for this production which is limited to only 10 copies. The original silver metal mask is made in in white brass, which originally was $395, so I have also reduced the price of the mask.  It is the only mask of this type that you can buy here in America that was totally designed, sculpted and cast 100% here in the USA.   I can however make cold cast copies for $100 each with no limit.  Cold casting is a mixture of atomized metal particles mixed in with a bonding agent which in this case in urethane.  It is cast in to a three part complicated mold.  It is then drilled, filed and sanded out and then finished off.  If you would like for me to also build you a head leather support device for this, it will be $50.  If you would also like a deep display frame to showcase this rare copy of most likely Romes most famous battle and most famous battle effecting Roman policy itself, the frame and the mounting of the mask into the frame is $100.  If you would like a metal engraved plate mentioning the mask, the time period of it's famous battle and etc. information, it would be an additional $100.  Much of this stuff takes up lots of time to do, not just in doing the jobs but time in making all of the the extra parts or items and lots of times in finding what you will need in order to do this.  Drive time and and the space needed to do this should also be considered.  You can do this yourself if you would to but it will take you many hours and countless time in order to do it all yourself as I have already made all the known contacts to take this project up a few notches.  This includes a lot of driving around to get all of this stuff and to have it custom made to your liking.  Time-wise, if you would like this stuff done, it would actually pay you to have me do it for you but I have explained everything that you need to know and the focus lies within your finale decision.   There is also the choice of aging this mask to make it look like it is 2000 years old and just dug out of the ground.  This is also an art unto itself and weathering the item you chose in either the original metal or cold cast copy of it is yet again something I have been doing for many years.  You also have several choices of weathering we can talk over and do if you want it aged.  These is the natural aging of wearing armored gear for 25 years and the aging of a new archeological find and some aging even in between those two which I have mentioned.   This aging process which I have mastered cost $100 to have added (aging) to your order.  The most interesting aspect of this Roman mask when compared to other Roman mask in particular is the macabre nature and look of this mask.  This fact along along sets this mask apart from any other Roman mask ever found.  You could actually call it a mask of death which the French word Macebre means .  As it is now commonly suspected, these mask were deliberately designed after the Roman owners face.  To have this face of the macabre design is highly unusual even for the Romans both in Roman times and in modern times.  For this reason, this sculpture is significantly different then any other Roman mask ever found.  I have not listed this mask for sale for many months now.  The reason is because it cost me a lot to do in the first place and I can not afford to have one just hanging around in the silvered metal version.  I have now invested into having one in stock, so I can now but it out there on eBay once again.  It has been about half a year since one with listed.  It has never been listed on my Nix Imperial website.  So as of this of this writing I am up to number five of this limited edition of ten is silvered  metal versions and I am  only making ten like this cast in silvered metal and looking the way they would have looked before the battle of Teutonburg Forest.  Through close examination of the original which I personally got to see in Kalkriese, it seems that this mask was redone or at the very least reworked at least five different times by the ways of studying the original drilled out holes in the iron mask which still exist in the base metal copy located at the Museum.   The way it would have looked back then based on close examination of the original model mask is the way I have chosen to make the mask as you see it in the pictures.  This piece that I am selling is not just a mask but a work of art that is totally sculpted in metal as most sculpted art is.  To get around the silver look of the mask and it's limited variation, I will also allow a person to get a copy sculpted in solid brass but the price cannot be any lower then $350 and most of my cost cost goes into paying the American foundry to cast molds from art work.  I get it back and have to do many hours of work on the mask to even make it available for sale.  So just to set the record straight, if you buy this mask and decide you want a brass copy which is gold looking in appearance and is also not kept in stock, you will need to accept the terms of buying it and then waiting any where from three months to to four months before you get your copy and that is only if you want just the mask and do not ask me to do any extra work on it.  I can and will do any work you ask me to do but this will add to the time delay on getting your purchase.  Many American metal foundries have a two year waiting period but due to my work with them over the past 25 years, I can get special treatment and be moved up to a quicker casting time. My mask is not a 1 to 1 size to the original Teutoburg mask as no modern man can wear the ancient mask from 9AD as it too small except for children.  I do not have any pictures of my cold cast mask or know it's weight.  The silver one that I make and sell is much larger to easily fit a modern size mans head and it is made to look like what the original did 2,008 years ago before the silver skin was removed from it by one of the victorious German tribesman.  The mask weights 2 pounds.  " I have about 200 new custom made and designed items I will put up for sale, as well as my sword and sandal movie prop collection, my military miniature figure collection painted by Russian masters, my World War II collection, my ancient coin and ancient military artifact collection and other various military "militaria" items".  These will all be listed under the Terry Nix Collection III in the near future, so please keep checking back or you will miss that one of a kind item.

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