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 base of the backplate is the buttock defence (garde-de-rein), of five plates, fluted in a radiating manner, and attached by a single screw to Plate 1 of the backplate.

German, about 1515. National Germanic Museum, Nuremberg

The shoulder plates—the pauldrons—are of five plates, decorated with radiating fluting, and attached by two rivets to two diamond sectioned projections, around which it is supposed were formerly wound the tails of the lambrequin. Attached to two pin holes, and suspended from the top of the pauldrons, are the two large circular plates protecting the arm-pits, which are called the palettes. Each is 9-1/2 inches in diameter, the right hollowed slightly at its