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Face Defense (Falling Buffe)

c. 1525
Attributed to Kolman Helmschmid (German (active Augsburg), 1470/71–1532)
This face defense was part of the former armory of the Princes Radziwiłł at Nieśwież, Lithuania (now Nesvizh, Belarus).

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