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Fig. 1214. Curiously decorated suit showing a burgonet head-piece

North Italian, school of Missaglia, about 1510-20 Bargello Museum, Florence

late Mr. William Burges' bequest to the British Museum, which Meyrick terms, but on what authority the author is at a loss to discover, a casquetel. The style, workmanship, and form of this piece all point to the first years of the XVIth century as the period, and to Italy as the country, of its production (Fig. 1213). Another such casque most strangely