. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . 5. 26. Armet (Early XVIth Century), with reinforcing plate overthe brow, one-part visor and single neck-lame with roped edge. Weight, 81b. 40Z. 27. Armet (Early XVIth Century), with bellows visor and ropedcrest. The beavor is scalloped on the lower edge, and does not belong tothe rest. The two neck-lames at the back allow a certain amount of playwhen throwing back the head. Weight, 51b. 28. Armet (Early XVIth Century), with ridged crest and bellowsvisor. There are two neck-lames in front and behind. The whole ismuch dented and wo
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . 5. 26. Armet (Early XVIth Century), with reinforcing plate overthe brow, one-part visor and single neck-lame with roped edge. Weight, 81b. 40Z. 27. Armet (Early XVIth Century), with bellows visor and ropedcrest. The beavor is scalloped on the lower edge, and does not belong tothe rest. The two neck-lames at the back allow a certain amount of playwhen throwing back the head. Weight, 51b. 28. Armet (Early XVIth Century), with ridged crest and bellowsvisor. There are two neck-lames in front and behind. The whole ismuch dented and worn. Weight, 81b. 8oz. CLASS IV : HELMS AND HELMETS. 177 29. Armet (Early XVIth Century).—The skull is fluted, and hasa strong cabled crest. The visor is very skilfully forged in the form ofa human mask, with twisted moustaches, horizontal vision-slits taking theplace of eyes. Beneath this visor is a modern visor of thin metal. Thehelmet opens at the side, and has a bold cabled rim to fit over the gorget. Weight, 81b. 40Z. Purchased at the Bernal salein ARMET (IV, 29). ARMET (IV, :i:i). 30. Armet (Early XVIth Century), with roped crest and two-partvisor, the upper portion being pierced with horizontal vision-slits. Thereare two lames at the back which originally worked on sliding rivets but arenow fixed. The helmet is closed by a long plate hinged to the beavor andpassing over a turning-pin on the lower part of the skull-piece. Weight, 51b. 31. Armet (XVIth Century), with ridged crest, one-part bellowsvisor, and articulated lames at the back of the neck. The original liningof quilted yellow silk remains. Weight, 51b. 40Z. 32. Armet (XVIth Century), with roped crest. The visor hashorizontal vision-slits. There are two neck-plates in front and twobehind, with roped margins. Weight, 51b. 80Z. 33. Armet (XVIth Century), with visor in form of a monsters face,with wings of thin metal at the sides. This piece is probably of Polishorigin. Weight, 51b. 80Z. 178 THE ARMOURIES OF
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