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 which the camail was attached, a method that superseded fastening the camail directly to the exposed staples. This head-piece is of the third quarter of the XVth century.

It is interesting to compare No. 84 Wallace Collection (Fig. 437) with the example just described. It shows a slightly advanced type, though it is only a few years later in date. It will be noticed that the cheek-pieces are more ample, and more closely modelled to the shape of the side of the face and of the neck; they also extend to a greater length, splaying out towards their base in a gorget-like manner; at the back they slightly overlap and are attached to one another by a turning pin. The strip of iron that covered the leather strap to which the camail was attached is missing; though the holes for the rivets that fixed it can be seen. It will be observed in the case of both these armets that the hinge and pin arrangement for attaching the visor, which, as we saw on the bascinet, made possible a rapid removal or re-*fixing of this defence, is now placed in a position of safety beneath the extremities of the visor. Space to permit of this arrangement is obtained by the visor being slightly embossed at the extremities so as to allow space for the concealed hinge between the visor and skull-piece of the helmet.

Italian, about 1470, Collection: Baron de Cosson