the ears, and could, by the easy process of withdrawing a pin, be detached from the skull-piece at pleasure. The brass staples that now attach the camail to the helmet are modern; though they are most accurately copied from existing examples. For the purpose of restoring the bascinet to its original appearance, these staples are now substituted for the rivets with rosette-headed washers which had apparently been added early in the XIXth century, and which, being similar to those which adorned the morions of the XVIth century, were entirely out of character with this bascinet. Even as early as 1832 Sir Samuel Meyrick had expressed his regret that some "foolish person" had added the XVIth century rosette rivets to the bascinet; but, until the re-organization of the Wallace armoury in 1908, they were allowed to remain—a glaring anachronism.
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Fig. 289. Visored bascinet helmet, late XIVth century
Formerly in the Meyrick, now No. 74 in Wallace Collection, shown as at present arranged with the camail attached in the proper manner
