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Originally Posted by ham

Typically mail from the 16th c. onward, regardless of origin, will show a thinner diameter of wire at these points to distribute weight best. There are exceptions, of course.

I can't check this at the moment, but as far as I remember from the pieces I have seen before, those from 17th century where constructed just like that too, with smaller and thinner rings on some parts. In Poland, as probably everywhere else, we can find chainmails with unriveted rings in 16th and 17th century too. There are probably rarer, because such mail isn't strong enough to survive such a long time in complete, so mostly unriveted pieces are probably later from 19th century.