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Italian, about 1440. Collection: Baron de Cosson

being very similar in the skull- and cheek-pieces to an example at the Museum of Artillery in the Rotunda, Woolwich (Fig. 431), and to the fine and complete armet in the Baron's own collection (Fig. 430). The great likeness in these three armets is in the extreme depth of the check-plates, in the keel-like cross section of the skull-piece, and in the simple formation of the upper outline of the reinforcing forehead plate. This last mentioned point we draw attention to, as it will be noticed, on reference to the illustration of the more advanced armets of the XVth century (see Fig. 437), that this plate has a tendency to become elaborate in its outline and that the single curve is at a later date usually duplicated. The face opening in all the three armets under discussion is also strengthened by a strip of iron of square section riveted round the edge of the skull- and cheek-pieces; while at the back of the neck of the Chalcis armet projects a square pin, which held the rondel.
 * trated in Archaeologia (vol. lxii, Plate LIII), the complete one (Fig. 429, a, b)