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at variance with North Italian style, but are certainly of that nationality. It would be safe to assign this morion, which is likewise enriched with broad incrusted bands of silver, to the closing years of the XVIth century.

Fig. 1280. Morion

North Italian, about 1580-90. H 197, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris

Italian too in origin, but a little more robust in its general lines, is the morion in the Musée d'Artillerie, H 197 (Fig. 1280). Appropriately etched with bands of various ornaments, it reveals, both in its form and in the style of its etched ornaments, German influence. Compare it with a German morion in the same collection, H 208 (Fig. 1281), and but few points of variance will be perceived, save that the latter head-piece is a form usually met with at an earlier date, and somewhat resembles those head-pieces of Spanish origin that may be assigned to the closing years of the XVth century. This German morion has its surface thinly etched with a carefully drawn heraldic composition that introduces the Burgundian emblem of the fire steel; while the inscription round the brim denotes that it was one of the helmets worn by the guard of Charles Schurft of Echenwor, Hereditary Grand Huntsman of the Imperial Tyrol, and consequently must be assigned to a date somewhere about the year 1600.

Fig. 1281. Morion

South German, about 1600. H 208, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris

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