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German, by Lorenz(?) Kolman of Augsburg. The cheek-plates are modern, about 1520

(a) With raised visor, showing the inner visor

(b) Back view, showing the puffed ornaments

Collection: Mr. F. Joubert

left-hand side, beneath the pivot of the visor. The lower edge of the helmet is finished by a hollow roping fitting the top plate of the gorget, and allowing the wearer to turn his head. The helmet is probably of Augsburg make, and can be dated within the second quarter of the XVIth century. Although the loss of its original cheek-pieces renders it an incomplete head-piece, an example from the collection of Mr. Felix Joubert (Fig. 1187) is also worthy of close scrutiny; for apart from the fine double visor it possesses, it shows at the back of the skull-piece, to a very marked degree, embossed bands radiating from the comb, each so worked as to represent the puffing of a cap. This helmet was a fine head defence, and its workmanship is of the finest, being probably that of Lorenz Kolman of Augsburg; in its pristine condition, freshly gilt and etched, it must have appeared magnificent. It would be wearisome to cite other individual helmets of the same order;