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 the Atlantic separates these two pieces. It is to be hoped, however, that in the near future the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of New York and Mr. Newall may come to some satisfactory arrangement by which this long separation of casque and buffe may be finally terminated. As far as it has been possible to trace the history of the buffe previous to its coming into the collection of Mr. Frederick Peter Seguier, it seems to have been in the collection of a Mr. Smart, from whom the tradition comes that it was bought at Venice by the great jeweller Hamlet early in the XIXth century.

Belonging to the burgonet (Fig. 1264). Collection: Mr. William Newall

A final word must be said about the Colbert casque with its buffe, and that is that we have fairly convincing proof that about the year 1587 they