Italian Barbute T shaped visor

Description

The Italian barbute T shaped visor (also termed a barbuta), is a visorless battle helmet of 15th-century Italian design with a “T” shaped dome  for the eyes and mouth.

The each helmet includes:

• Riveted Chainmail
• Padding
• Padded aventail
• Chin stropes
• Aventail hardened steel neck plates

Thickness

• 3 mm top part of the dome
• 2 mm bottom part of dome
• Hardened spring steel 30HGSA
• Weight 6795 g approx

The face and bottom of the helmet reinforced with 4mm hardened steel parts.

Source of the helmet: Italian barbuta, c. 1460, of the T-shaped form, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

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