Helmets for knights

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How the Great Helm is worn over the Bascinet or a removable Visor being attached to the latter
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Object Title Tilting helm Date 1490 Object Number IV.1
WT Live // Image by BaronVonKrieg
German Ritter "savoyard" helmet, also known as Totenkopf (XVII century).
Close-Helmet | British or Flemish | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Close-Helmet | British or Flemish | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bascinet - Wikipedia
Later great bascinet (c. 1440) with rounded skull and visor - showing the position of the wearer's head and the rotation of the visor