- tions many and divers forms of the primitive helm; but so far as we are
aware not a single authentic specimen anterior to about 1360 is in existence. To us it seems almost incredible that Mr. James Planché, to whom antiquaries owe so much for his archaeological research, should have accepted as genuine some puerile evident forgeries in the Tower, and also a blatant sham which even the Tower authorities could not be persuaded to purchase. In his famous "Dictionary of Costume," published in 1876, he illustrates a page of "genuine existing helms of various types"; of these exactly only one half are authentic.
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Fig. 147. The skull-piece of an early helm (?)
Showing a small crest of metal
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Fig. 148. From the seal of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, about 1300
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Fig. 149. From the seal of Edward of Carnarvon, Prince of Wales, about 1300
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