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About 1480-90. Of iron, plated with gold, and enriched with cloisonné enamel Collection: Viscount Astor, Hever Castle

record a very early example that we can place within the first half of the XVth century. It is, however, to America that we have now to turn for this representative specimen. It is in the collection of Dr. Bashford Dean of New York, who obtained it from the Baron Vedal de Levy. It was originally discovered at Meuse, France (Fig. 360). In form the skull-piece rises to a high pointed and ridged crown. The tail-piece is short, and hinged immediately below the position in which one is accustomed to look for the visor rivets; while the visor itself, if it may be so named, is attached to the front of the