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(a) Mid-XVth century. (b) Late XVIth century. (c) Early XVIth century. Nuremberg workmanship. (d) First half of the XVIth century. A bad English forgery of 1880. (e) Late XVth century. A good German forgery of 1890.

Made by E. de Zuloaga in the middle of the XIXth century

Royal Armoury, Madrid

formerly in the Tower of London—which apparently came from the same workshop. In our next illustration (Fig. 1550) we will picture a group of five gauntlets, all false and of various qualities of make. There are, however, more commonplace forgeries to be found in the market. Finally we will pass to those higher class forgeries that were, and still are, most deceiving. Gaggini of Milan, for instance, copied the Plus ultra shield of Charles V in the Royal Armoury, Madrid, D 63 (ante, Vol. iv, page 229, Fig. 1301), with