A cabasset for comments ... please

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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

....after I should have learned my lesson with the famed tulwar vs. ceiling fan incident.....

A bizarre version of when the tulwar hits the fan .

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

...I tried to put on a kulah khud helmet and got it pretty well stuck on my head...

To prevent one's head from getting stuck with these things, the correct technique is to try them on someone in the house .

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After some backstage combined research with a knowledged member, a rather plausible identification for this cabasset is that it is Italian, most possibly from the Papal Armory, the mark being that of the Barberini family arsenal, where a more clear example in another cabasset reveals the three bees symbol of their coat of arms. Its date remaining the same 1580-1600.

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Note the exquisite plume holder and the arsenal mark, on a said Barberini Papal example. The pipe fixation is in the same position as mine. I just wouldn't guess that its riveting is also decorated with rosettes ... at least this one.


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