3-021-600 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Meyrick Collection at South Kensington: bourginot, 1869. A specimen from '...the collection of ancient arms and armour formed by Sir Samuel Meyrick, of Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, which is now to be seen in the Great Exhibition Palace at South Kensington...the bourginot, or open helmet, crested with bells like a fool's-cap, which unlucky captives in Germany were sometimes compelled to wear as a sign of degradation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.