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 (d. 1319)

Schonthal Church. From Bontelle's "Monumental Brasses"

(d. 1349)

Kaiser Dom of Frankfort

(d. 1369)

From his monument at Necken-Steinach, near Heidelberg

After Viollet-le-Duc

to the hand of Pietro Baseggio early in the XLVth century, which gives a full-faced representation of a knight whose head-piece is an almost hemispherical bascinet. The staple and cord tackle attaching the chain camail are clearly defined; while the portion of the mail that could be lifted to form a facial guard hangs below the chin, and is fastened by means of a catch to a cross-shaped bolt in the forehead of the skull-piece. A clever reconstruction of a bascinet which is in the collection of the late Mr. Frederic Stibbert, bequeathed to the city of Florence, gives an excellent illustration of the actual appearance of a chain mail nasal-guard, raised and attached to the skull of the bascinet (Fig. 266). This chain mail nasal-guard may have been the face protection of that splendid helmet in the Wallace Collection