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and is found lacking in funerary and pageant helms, is the thickening of the metal round the ocularium for the further protection of the vulnerable portion of the head-piece. Contemporary helms of this form made solely for funerary purposes exist however. There is a good mid-XIVth century example in the Francisco-Carolinum Museum at Linz, and another in the Copenhagen Museum; while in the collection of Lord Astor at Hever Castle is a specimen that came from Mgowo, in Poland. We illustrate a funerary helm of very exaggerated form, but perhaps a contemporary production, formerly in the collection of Herr Franz Thill (Fig. 329).
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