A miniature of a helm

[fernando]

Outstanding response, Allan.
A fistfull of tracks to follow the subject; impossible to be more pleasant.
Now i will have to digest such an amount of information.
For a start i enjoyed seeing a specimen with a 'hinged buckle' like in mine, that of the third link of your second post.
I happen to have Stone's guide; thanks for calling my attention to page 36. This example appears to be the same as the one from the Bashford Dean collection in the Metropolitan Museum, featured in a Bulletin i recalled yesterday having bought in the Museum shop when i was there.
Once more thanks a lot for the comprehensive enligthening.
By the way, i am attaching pictures of the interior. You are an armourer; how old would you say this helm is, within a range of consensual failure.

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