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Fig. 262. From the monumental slab of Albrecht von Hohenlohe (d. 1319)

Schonthal Church. From Bontelle's "Monumental Brasses"

Fig. 263. From the monumental slab of Günther von Schwartzburg (d. 1349)

Kaiser Dom of Frankfort

Fig. 264. Ulrich Landschaden (d. 1369)

From his monument at Necken-Steinach, near Heidelberg

Fig. 265. From the tomb of Berchtoldus at Freiburg

After Viollet-le-Duc

to the hand of Pietro Baseggio early in the XLVth century, which gives a full-faced representation of a knight whose head-piece is an almost hemispherical bascinet. The staple and cord tackle attaching the chain camail are clearly defined; while the portion of the mail that could be lifted to form a facial guard hangs below the chin, and is fastened by means of a catch to a cross-shaped bolt in the forehead of the skull-piece. A clever reconstruction of a bascinet which is in the collection of the late Mr. Frederic Stibbert, bequeathed to the city of Florence, gives an excellent illustration of the actual appearance of a chain mail nasal-guard, raised and attached to the skull of the bascinet (Fig. 266). This chain mail nasal-guard may have been the face protection of that splendid helmet in the Wallace Collection