usual arrangement in the centre for the insertion of the brayette or cod-piece, which is missing. The armet-collar is laminated behind. The sollerets are of the “bear-paw” form. [Illustration: Fig. 20.--Fluted Maximilian Suit at Berlin.] There is a remarkably fine suit of Maximilian armour in the Königl. Bayer Armée Museum at Munich. It is not, however, quite such a characteristic example as the ones already given, inasmuch as the pauldrons, besides not being winged, are without pikeguards. The armpits are protected by spiked rondelles. In all other respects this suit is identical with the one preceding. A suit at the National Museum, Munich, of which a drawing is given in Fig. 21, is more shapely than the one preceding, and differs in some rather essential particulars. The armet has a very projecting and grated visor. The pauldrons are more comprehensive; the cuirass more globose. The mitten gauntlets with fluted cuffs are very beautiful, and the finger plates are wonderfully flexible. This is rather an early form of the “Maximilian” gauntlet, and would date the suit between 1505 and 1510. Armour was often worn at this period with helmets of a grotesque character. A drawing is given in Fig. 22 of a suit at Nuremberg, badly set up, with an armet of this character. The armour is fluted. There are some of these grotesque helmets, of the same period, at Vienna, and the author has a couple of a later time in his own collection. Although armour of the Maximilian period is usually fluted this is by no means always the case, and a smooth suit of that school in the author’s collection is now described, and a drawing of it follows in Fig. 23, which somewhat incongruously exhibits the knight as holding a flamberge, which is a footman’s weapon. [Illustration: Fig. 21.--Fluted Maximilian Suit at Munich.] [Illustration: Fig. 22.--Fluted Maximilian Suit, with Grotesque Helmet.] [Illustration: Fig. 23.--Plain Maximilian Suit, in the Author’s Collection.]