. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . CLASS IV : HELMS AND HELMETS. i8i. CLOSE HELMET (IV, 50). etc. The strap work has been gilt at someperiod. The metal is very thin and thepiece is purely for parade. Engraved inWarings Metallic Art. Weight, 31b. 120Z. Purchased in 1852. 51. Close Helmet (XVIIth Cen-tury), with double ridged crest and ropedmargins. The visor is in two parts, piercedwith air-holes on both sides. The vision-slits are so placed that sight can only beobtained when the head is bent forward,as in the charge. There are two neck-lames. The helmet is closed
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . CLASS IV : HELMS AND HELMETS. i8i. CLOSE HELMET (IV, 50). etc. The strap work has been gilt at someperiod. The metal is very thin and thepiece is purely for parade. Engraved inWarings Metallic Art. Weight, 31b. 120Z. Purchased in 1852. 51. Close Helmet (XVIIth Cen-tury), with double ridged crest and ropedmargins. The visor is in two parts, piercedwith air-holes on both sides. The vision-slits are so placed that sight can only beobtained when the head is bent forward,as in the charge. There are two neck-lames. The helmet is closed by a hook onthe right side and by a spring catch on thechin-piece. Weight, 71b. 80Z. 52. Close Helmet (XVIIth Century).—The umbril, visor andbeavor are pivoted on a T-headed rivet. The visor has breathing holes onthe right side. The whole is kept closed by two hooks. Weight, 41b. 80Z. 53. Close Helmet (XVIIth Century), probably used as a funeralachievement, of thin material, painted, and studded with gilt rivets. Morions and Cabassets. 54. Combed Morion (Late XVIth Century), with very high,r
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