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Showing the solleret with the half plate protection National Gallery

unusual in its formation, the differentiated pauldrons à la façon d'Italie are perhaps modified a little in front, but they are enormous at the back, almost overlapping each other. The only point of special interest which we notice is the strange extension of the placate of the breastplate to the top turnover of the under plate. It is also remarkable how mobile are the joints, which work on riveted straps instead of on slotted rivets. There is now no gorget plate to the suit, but this was doubtless of chain mail; indeed, in the illustration in Jacob von Schrenck's work to which we have referred, the suit is shown so completed and with sollerets in the same medium. We have failed to discover why the suit is described as belonging to the San Severino family. All that can be said is that it is attributed to