Thanks for those pics Brian. I see you found the helmet i was talking about.
That exhibition on Early Islamic armour in Paris sounds fascinating, however I can't see my wife agrreing to me disappearing to paris for a weekend. I never even got to see the Turks! exhibition at the RA, and that was only in london.
Wolviex, there is no doubt that the Ottomans did have a strong influence on Polish, Hungarian and Russian armour. I have noticed that The decoration on Polish
shishaks/chichaks/zischagges however is more European and quite distinct from the Turkish helmets.