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Fig. 447. Armet with its additional buffe
Made by Conrad Seusenhofer of Innsbrück and presented, together with the suit to which it belongs, by the Emperor Maximilian I to King Henry VIII some time between 1511 and 1514. Tower of London. Class II, No. 5
to which it belongs. The second German made armet is the work of Koloman Kolman of Augsburg and originally formed part of a suit made for the Emperor Charles V in 1521, a suit now missing from the Royal Armoury, Madrid. The armet is numbered A 75 to A 83 in the official catalogue (Fig. 448). Again the model is strictly Italian, though generally a little later in style than that of the Seusenhofer armet. It is, however, one of the most complete forms of this type of head-piece extant, possessing no fewer than eight additional reinforcements for various purposes. A feature to be
