A CLOSED BURGONET, the rounded two-piece skull joined along the low finely roped comb with a rolled overlap, tubular iron plume-pipe at the rear, prominent sharply pointed fall pivoted on rivets with conical fluted heads at the same points as the bevor, the latter shaped to the chin, with a spring and stud locking-catch on the right, and single deep gorget plate at front and rear, the face opening filled with a falling buffe of three plates secured by spring-catches, the top one with wide barred sight, the main edges recessed, turned and finely roped, the internal ones scalloped below an engraved line, and domed iron lining rivets throughout, early 17th Century, probably French