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Fig. 461. Helm, with its accompanying harness
German, about 1500-1510. No. 327, Wallace Collection
not with the coronel or rebated lance-head customarily used in the jousts of peace. The suit bears the Augsburg guild mark and the letter S with an indistinct bar, baton, or axe running through it. This same mark, together with the Augsburg guild mark, is to be seen on two of the fine tilting harnesses of the same nature at Vienna. Augsburg was famous at the end of the XVth century for the production of these ponderous harnesses. In the fine series of such armour exhibited in the National Germanic Museum of Nuremberg is a suit, a counterpart of the Wallace harness, made also at
