sight opening, across which at intervals have been roughly riveted iron hoops in the hope of lending to the helm the appearance of an heraldic barred helmet. Doubtless it was in the latter years of the XVIth century that the alterations were made—ruthless treatment to apply to so fine a specimen of English tilting helm. On pages 109 and 110 we told the story of its purchase, together with that of the other helm (Fig. 455) in St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
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Fig. 482. Drawings of two helms by the Author
In the fashion of the end of the XVth or commencement of the XVIth century
(a) Helm of English fashion and make
(b) Helm of German fashion, but possibly of English make
All the four helms of this group are good and simple in workmanship,
and we have little doubt that they are from the hands of the same armourer,
whosoever he was; but they are all without an armourer's mark of any
description. We are reluctantly forced to admit that their general outline
is poor in comparison with the contour of the German helm of a decade
earlier. Their tops are flat and evenly proportioned; but the outward curving
of their back plates corresponds too closely with that of their front plates,
lending to them a chimney-pot appearance. They all have the same
character, and are recognizable at once as belonging to the same family; but
they are not grand or suggestive of the great art of the armourer of those
