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 are not all, however, fashioned on the same model, neither are they all as ambitious in type as the one we have just illustrated. The author has seen two suits copied by this firm from the original made by the Missaglia. The same factory also turned its attention to the manufacture of heavy tournament sets for Das Deutsche Stechen. A really fine copy of such a harness was recently for sale in Vienna. We give an illustration (Fig. 1533) of a false tournament set; this is not the work of this Munich artificer, but appears to be of Nuremberg make of about 1870-80. Note the blotchy appearance of the surface, the impossible angle at which the helm is set upon the breastplate, and the very weak modelling of the bridle gauntlet. Another tournament suit in the fashion of the last years of the XVth century we also illustrate (Fig. 1534). This was constructed in England in 1888. No attempt had been made to doctor the surface; it had simply become reddened by exposure to the atmosphere.

A Nuremberg forgery of about 1870-80 of the end of the XVth century

English forgery of the close of the XVth century. Made circa 1888

The next suit illustrated (Fig. 1535) is the work of Leblanc-Granger,