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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 4363447, member: 20148&quot;]A modern cast aluminium copy, probably a copy of a copy of a copy by the looks of it, of a parade burgonet in the mid 16th century style of Lucio Piccinino or the Negroli brothers, but lacking the sharp details of the originals. Every time one takes a copy and then copies that, one loses some more detail unfortunately, as appears to be the case here.</p><p>The genuine ones tend to be fairly thin metal, but not always. </p><p>The beautiful helmet shown below belongs to a similarly decorated full armour in the Royal Armouries, ca. 1550, called &#039;The Lion Armour&#039;, probably French or Italian, the jury is out on this one! But the interesting thing about it is, that the armour has been quite extensively fought with! The right side of the skull bears several quite deep sword marks from use in antiquity.</p><p><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1AEWQgwV0ik/YBuxobDOuSI/AAAAAAAAAa4/Ny2IgNEJHrcZL3Q6RBepM10TRCFRnkQfACLcBGAsYHQ/s1912/large_DI_2010_1472.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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