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EUROPEAN ARMOUR AND ARMS

piece of this salade, which was purchased by the Tower of London authorities at the Bernal Sale at Christie's in 1855, is most gracefully moulded to a keel-like form, and, like most of the other examples to which we have alluded, is

Fig. 339. Salade
North Italian, bearing Milanese and Venetian marks. About 1470 Collection: Author

Fig. 340. Salade
North Italian, bearing a Milanese mark About 1470. Collection: Author

Fig. 341. Salade
North Italian, bearing a Milanese mark About 1470. Blued and trimmed with gilt bronze. Collection: Author

deeply stamped at the back with a Milanese armourer's mark twice repeated, placed above which is a third though different Italian mark (Fig. 343).

In the same armoury is an almost similar salade, but of less graceful contour. It bears a different armourer's mark, though of Milanese origin, thrice repeated. Five other salades of the Italian order are also to be seen

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