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 appearance of having been fabricated to meet the mid-XIXth century demand for early armaments, either from mail sleeves or from portions of hauberks. Specimens of such alteration of mail can be seen in the Wallace Collection, under No. 336. These specimens purport to be mail chausses complete with sollerets. Made of riveted chain, but with links of various sizes, they resemble in general appearance the form which it might be imagined the chausses of the XIIIth century assumed; but the actual chain mail of which they are composed, though of European origin, does not appear to be of an older type than that of the XVIth century. Most, indeed, of the so-called chausses that are found in museums can make no serious claim to authenticity in their present form, unless of course they happen to be of Eastern origin.

Late XIVth century. Collection: the late Mr. Rutherford Stuyvesant, U.S.A.