Conch helmet - Higgins Armory Museum - DSC05525

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Description: Helmet embossed in the form of a conch shell (awabi uchidashi kabuto), Japan, 1618. Made by Nagasone Tojiro Mitsumasa; signed "Echizen no kuni ju Mitsumasa; Nagasone Tojiro saku". Exhibit in the Higgins Armory Museum, 100 Barber Avenue, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. The museum permitted photography without any restriction, both in writing and when I asked verbally. Date: 24 September 2011, 11:25:32. Source: Self-photographed. Author: Daderot. Permission(Reusing this file): Public domain.