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 secured the ear-pieces, the surface is enriched with cornucopiae. The neck guard is finished by an outward turn forged to a leaf pattern. There is a brass shield-shaped plume-holder at the back, and also a row of brass rosette-*headed rivets by which the lining strap was formerly secured. Underneath the extreme front of the helmet is attached, by rivets, a movable plate, embossed in the form of teeth, round the lower edge of which is a series of holes provided for the attachment of a lining. The ear-plates are missing.

Probably North Italian, about 1540 Wallace Collection (Laking Catalogue, No. 108)

Of a little earlier date than this helmet are those three fine casques, so much alike, two of which are certainly the work of the brothers Negroli of Milan, one of them being signed and dated 1545. We take these three casques next because they reveal certain eccentricities of form which recall the head-pieces of classical times. These three helmets are preserved in the Royal Armoury of Madrid, D 30 (Fig. 1226), in the Musée d'Artillerie of Paris, H 253 (Fig. 1227), and in the collection of the late Mr. Rutherford Stuyvesant of New York (Fig. 1228). The helmet in the Royal Armoury of Madrid is thus described in the catalogue of the Real Armeria: "Parade Burgonet made by the armourers Negroli in 1545 for the Emperor Charles V."